spack++

So, after my awesome marketing, I actually got some few signups.  And sadly, though perhaps not too surprisingly, most all the signups are spammers.  Looking like rather dumb linker sites, and some auto-redirect sites.  I nearly linked to them, but there you go.  Think I will block with rather extreme prejudice.  By email, by ip, each site for the offending user, etc.

I used to fight against such things at freeservers.  Sounds like I need to write a script or two that can detect problems and block offending sites.  Not really what I want to be working on, but I sure don’t want to pay for folks to peddle their spammy sites.

Finding offensive javascript is one thing, but I am thinking that for offensive images maybe I will use amazon’s mechanical turk for such things.  In order to get my feet wet, I have the following HIT (Human Intelligence Tasks) currently live