[help]recent Referers...porn?

Umm, I happend to notice this on the site a few minutes ago.

It links to porno movies and stuff. Isn't this a family website?

Im sure Tim will sort this out ASAP.

Thank you for pointing it out and apologies to anyone offended by those links.

It's actually been happening a fair bit. Usually comes from the same address several times, then another address several times.

#215505

I wonder how many people are entering this in their adress bar as

they read it

#215506

Very weird. Seems that there are more.

I hope no one is trying to mess up this site.

#215507

You won't believe how many sites i've already blacklisted, and reported.

It just doesn't stop .

#215511

It is, after all, spam... :sighs:

#215531

maybe adding all sorts of porno and explicit words to the block list will help

#215641

i dont see any "bad" words in those links so your idea wouldn't work

#215717

Originally posted by Flarex@Sep 22 2004, 01:10 AM
i dont see any "bad" words in those links so your idea wouldn't work

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:blink: there's a nonporn site with doctorfem in the address?! I've gotta see this.

#215723

Someone said porn?

And there's a problem?

#215792

Originally posted by esXXI@Sep 22 2004, 08:47 AM
Someone said porn?

And there's a problem?

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It is when 90% of the community are 12yr olds, I KID I KID!

#215841

I think this sorta thing pretty much validates my idea for implementing various input filters... Staff could identify what should be considered good (and shown), or bad (and removed), and the system would ask their opinions less and less frequently (yes, I'm talking about bayesian filtering)...

#215844

i saw anal-creampie.doctorfem.com and like ewwww

#216180

hmm, that's not as bad as the steak and cheese site if you know what I'm talking about...

#216183

Enough! Hopefully this will be sorted out. I dont even know how that would come about? What does it mean by referers?

#216190

Referers are sites who have links to you, and "recent referers" are those sites that a user has recently followed a from. Referal can, however, be easily faked, and spammers often programmatically access a site with a given site as their referer, such that their site will come up in the recent referers list. Basically, it's an attempt to get their Google PageRank nice and high by using others' rank.

Steven Johnson discusses this more fully on Wired.

There are, of course, ways to beat comment/referrer spam... Many of which I plan on implementing.

Topic Closed.

There's no point continuing this discussion, because I'm gonna fix it soon.

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Stevie BM

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