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Spammers!!! – Link submission gone mad

April 12, 2005 by Michele Neylon Leave a Comment

I am getting really annoyed with having to deal with silly amounts of spam submissions to search.ie every day.
The site gets approximately 50 new submissions every day, which could be seen as a positive sign if it were not for the quality of the submissions (or more importantly the lack thereof).
What does a site selling pet urns in Texas have to do with Ireland?
The idea that anybody would want to cremate their pet and store its remains in an urn strikes me as quite bizarre anyway, but I fail to see what relevance it has to Ireland.
The hardcore p0rn submissions are not as numerous as they used to be, but are easy to spot in any case.
Last weekend I did a cleanup of the submission queue and got it down from over 700 pending links to a more managable 10-15.
After struggling manually through a few pages of junk I ended up doing most of the pruning directly on the DB and removed all submissions that included URL redirectors, affiliate code or submissions from my “favourite” spammers.
I’m hoping that Gossamer Links SQL will make browse.ie easier to maintain.

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