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Support => cpg1.4.x Support => Older/other versions => cpg1.4 miscellaneous => Topic started by: Jochus on January 20, 2008, 03:36:48 pm

Title: SPAM rating
Post by: Jochus on January 20, 2008, 03:36:48 pm

Guests can rate pictures on my gallery. Apparently, some SPAM bot is rating my pictures. Is there a way to stop that bot? Or do I have to disable "guests can rate pictures"

You can find my album @ http://album.jochus.be ...

Title: Re: SPAM rating
Post by: Hein Traag on January 20, 2008, 07:44:48 pm

Use Captcha: http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=36319.0 (http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=36319.0)

Cheers
Hein

Title: Re: SPAM rating
Post by: Jochus on January 20, 2008, 08:28:38 pm

That only works for comments, not for rating ... :-(

Title: Re: SPAM rating
Post by: Hein Traag on January 20, 2008, 08:39:48 pm

My bad ;) not awake enough i guess. yes Captcha does not do rating but i have not heard of a bot doing that before so i suggest you indeed disable the guest rating option and include all the people you do want to be able to rate into the registered users group.

Title: Re: SPAM rating
Post by: Nibbler on January 20, 2008, 08:49:37 pm

It has been discussed before actually. If it's a well behaved crawler as opposed to a spam bot then you can add an exclusion into robots.txt for ratepic.php. Check your server access logs to see what it is.

Title: Re: SPAM rating
Post by: Jochus on January 21, 2008, 09:46:55 pm

Log mode is on "everything", but the only thing I see is this:

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Garbage collection deleted logs/global.log.php at January 18, 2008, 9:05 am
Garbage collection deleted logs/security.log.php at January 20, 2008, 12:22 am
Garbage collection deleted logs/access.log.php at January 21, 2008, 1:57 pm

Title: Re: SPAM rating
Post by: Nibbler on January 21, 2008, 11:50:11 pm

Server access logs, not Coppermine logs.

Title: Re: SPAM rating
Post by: Jochus on January 22, 2008, 08:05:24 pm

http://jochus.be/brol/album.jochus.be.log

You mean this one? Or another one?