news's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- new button, thoughts on avoiding spammer signups Just a note mentioning that there's a new donation button in the members area. No pressure, but feel free to donate if you want, the site could use it, it takes a lot to keep it running. Someone suggested this recently and it made sense, so it's added now! I also want to add a widget soon showing how many spam site have been nuked in the past 24 hours or something, because it's silly how many are still being created. I have actually considered doing something to stop them where you can only sign up for Diaryland if you get a special code from another user or something like that, or pay a token fee of $1 or something (since these are both things that spammers won't do, but legitimate users shouldn't have trouble with), but I don't know, anyone have thoughts on that? email help @ diaryland dot com if so! Happy 2010 all! posted by andrew. 1:30 p.m. - Jan. 18, 2010 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- spam system update Quick update, after less than 24 hours, the new system for detecting spam diaries has been a huge success, and we've closed over 150 of them. Woo. I love the fact that someone spent a decent amount of time creating a ton of pages trying to sell counterfeit Ugg boots or whatever (seriously, SO many of these lately have been selling those things), and everytime someone reports them, I check them out, say "yup that's spam" and click 1 button and boom, all their work spamming is deleted in less than a second. So keep reporting these guys, it's been going great, thanks to everyone who has reported one or more of these! posted by andrew. 9:05 p.m. - Oct. 11, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- new anti spam diary system Quick quick note: The spammer problem has been getting out of hand, so we have a new automated system. When you see a spam diary in the "recent public entries" list, just click the little star beside the username and it'll be submitted to us, we'll verify it's a spammer and remove it. I've been testing it a bunch tonight and the system is awesome, very fast and easy, only takes us a second to nuke a spam diary and ban the user, weeee. So check that out! Happy thanksgiving Canada. posted by andrew. 2:20 a.m. - Oct. 11, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- spam diaries part 2 Hello hello, So as an addendum to the last news entry about the people who make fake diaries to advertise stuff, I have decided to send a DiaryLand t-shirt to whoever reports the most of these this month. If more than one person reports the same one at approximately the same time, I'll give each person credit. So keep those coming in and maybe you can get yourself a free shirt, as well as making it a lot less annoying to browse diaries. Next up: I'm adding a discussion board/forum to the members area. I plan to do this very soon, send me your ideas on like general discussion categories and whatnot! posted by andrew. 1:09 p.m. - May. 05, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- fake advertising diaries boo No news for a while, sorry about that! So anyhow, lately there have been some people making fake diaries in order to use as spam advertising pages. If you run into one of these, please let us know right away and we'll shut them down. If anyone who is adding these happens to read this, you might as well stop, we'll just be shutting them down immediately now, and since everyone is going to read this, they'll let us know right away (right guys?). thanks, more news soon! Andrew posted by andrew. 2:17 a.m. - May. 02, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- saturday night network prob Sorry for the downtime just now, the data center had a network problem, but everything is back to normal now, sorry! posted by andrew. 1:36 a.m. - Nov. 30, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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