Posts tagged s2r

ImageBoard Spam List

Tech

Since i run several successful anonymous imageboards, one of the ways to prevent spam is to have a sort of spam list (i would say blacklist) of all the domains url’s that are not able to be posted on the board (since one of the main reasons to spam the boards is to post links to fishing or illegal sites), this way this prevents them being posted by bots altogether.

So its an essential tool to have a clean board and to keep things clean, even if later on more automated tools like akismet or defensio are included, this is still a nice clean and fast way to keep most spam or idiotic posts from the site, so the file is a simple spam.txt file on the root of the site, one domain/site per line, this of course is most useful to other imageboard hosts that use the same system (wakaba or kusaba clone software), so here is our very own custom spam.txt list hehehe for free yayy 1131 domains (i’m actually thinking about making our own system, so anyone can add links and have the latest version for their board so their system is always protected heheheh)

UPDATE (from tentakle and neechan):

Uhh since the last post we have added a bunch more, so there ya go an updated spam.txt this new list has 1372 domains that are/were used in spam posting on imageboards, the old link as well hehehe, you can use something like WinMerge or TextOpus to help merge your existing spam file with my awesome one ^^

Welcome to the New Hostcult

Update

Heheheh,wait? isnt hostcult a hosting company? … humm it was/is ^_^ but since about a year ago, we refocused Send to Receive into a kind of web developing company and decided to just turn Hostcult into S2R solely hosting and services provider, so we pointed our customers to other cool hosting companies and some of them we still host (but this time for free >_< ), but since we have the domain (mostly used for dns and domain aliases), we might as well use it hehehe, so what does this new hostcult bring?

Well mostly talk about hosting, news about the hosting industry, reviews about hosting (that we use), well stuff like that, also with hosting related subjects with s2r (so if any s2r site is down or there is any problem with our servers, we will post here updates, since this blog is hosted on google’s blogger)…

news,s2r,
Think thats about it for now (still fixing up the hostcult theme), more stuff soon enough hehehe

Neechan Woes and Fixing Spam!

Update

Well we run neechan and tentakle (these are both anonymous image boards) and since like a month ago, we started getting bombed with CP , although completely against our rules, the idea of a image board is that anyone can post easily, so CP and other nasty stuff tends to show up from time to time, but that was not the case, this was continuous multiple posts a day, the idea is simple, to bypass our various protections, they just post a CP image with the url to visit on the image itself, so things like banning the domain aren’t going to work as well as banning just posting images, cause that’s a natural thing to do on a image boards, so what did we do?

Hummm we started by increasing the restrictions, adding captcha and starting to ban by image hash, however all of these the bots kept bypassing, old captcha systems can be broken pretty easily by software, images can be changed ever so slightly to bypass image hash, that was especially hard on neechan’s wabaka captcha, that was easily broken, this got to a point that rightly so someone told google that we were hosting CP ourself, but only between the time of posting and the time it takes for an admin (me) to delete it, so clearly we needed to improve even more our code, so we hacked the code and started using re-captcha.

So did it work? actually yes, not only cause re-captcha is quite a strong captcha system, but mostly cause these bots are targeted to this software and its weaknesses, if i would change to a more simple setup i believe it would also break the bots, well until it was programmed to break that particular system, but this way, we can outsource at least part of our security to someone that knows captchas and thus solving our problem, so will we switch tentakle also to re-captcha, hummm if CP starts passing through it, absolutely ^_^.oO ( thank you recaptcha )

How S2R uses Open Source Software

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Well we here at s2r use a lot of open source software, that is not to say we don’t use some proprietary or custom made software from time to time, but that’s mostly when you get into that kind of situation where if you want your project to come to life and there is no alternative, you have to make it on your own, but for the most part the logic to use a stable free platform, not only saves time of not doing ourselves but more important it give you the freedom to work on the frontside and the community and the service and not so much on what and how it works… like… you want to bake a cake, you could buy it made, but making it and fiddling with the dosages and making the recipe your own is way more fun and more pleasurable… right ^_^ but you don’t want to go all out and plant the grain and sugar cane and make flour and sugar and have chickens for the eggs… that is awesome in its own way but i like my balance of awesomeness hehehe, soo what are our favorite and most used open source software and why do we use it?

Used extensively

WordPress > There is a reason why it is widely used, its a solid blog/light cms system that can be configured to do a 1001 different things

SMF > My favorite Forum Software, just cause its breakneck solid and feature complete

Drupal > By far my personal favorite cms, its still not perfect but it works perfectly and very modable, still its not that user-friendly and takes a long time to make stuff shine

Zenphoto > Don’t know… i just like how it works, simple and to the point gallery software, if it doesn’t have a feature its kinda easy to make it and it just works

Not used extensively but still used and recommended

bbPress > wished it was more solid, still a good and simple forum software (i’m always between bbPress and Vanilla)

Joomla > second best to drupal, a very good cms, its just not that matured and it sometimes breaks hard

Elgg > social networking, its very plain and still needs a lot of work

FluxBB > punBB fork, since punBB was sold to a commercial company and it kinda seems to be going on another direction now…

Formerly used but dropped for some reason

PhpBB > even with the new version, its still a mess of a software and it needs constant attention and care to make it work as it should

Gallery > too many options but not the ones i wished, i kinda would like it more, if it was a lightweight flickr, but its more a oversize personal gallery

PHP-Nuke > basically one developer, with security breaches from time to time and too cluncky and unworkable

Movabletype > it was pretty cool before it went full commercial and now that is kinda open source its much better, but i just don’t trust a company that flips all the time with my sites ^^

PunBB > dont like the direction they are going, besides now its moved by a commercial entity (not that a lot of other open source software dont do the same, mostly cause i dont like the direction hehehe)

old news

News

> Working on a lot of different things, also a couple of new domains like yime.org, slooge.com and doninha.com ^_^

>Just Received a but load of ubuntu linux cd’s i’ll start by putting one to good use for powering another box for pet projects (sr2 labs ^_^), the rest are up for grabs anyone that wants 1, just contact me on the contact section

> Work on psicotica.com and andreia.org is underway, trying out google adsense ads on s2r.org and on fiendish.org and hentaish.com feeds (not on the sites themselves) so if you want to support or if you find something interesting your just a click away

> Hentaish.com is online (ok it’s still a beta, but everything seems to work great), fiendish.org is optimised to the max, mamilo.com is working great as well, the priority now are psicotica.com , andreia.org and oxidado.com ( maybe i’ll finish up a couple of others ^_^ like besigh.com or soundcult.com )

> New Domains hentaish.com and psicotica.com, also hentaipt.com is gonna be dropped, also new updates on several sites, including mamilo.com and oxidado.com and fiendish.org, more news soon…

> New Domain hentaipt.com and projects are as usual being worked on ^_^

> Same oh same oh, mamilo.com is online and some of the projects domains were put on sedo.com (just because they aren’t being used yet)

> A Bunch of new projects are in beta, finished or coming together 😛

> The work on Hostcult.com new layout and server are finished, fiendish.org and incult.com are online or in the final beta stages

> New Domains Added, Hostcult.com new layout is almost finished, working on new projects ;D

contact

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For now you can contact us by going to our site at S2R.org, on the contact section ^_^

about

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Humm i’ll give a quick review on both hoscult.com and s2r.org ^_^

Hostcult
Hummm hoscult was basically the placeholder domain for our hosting, it still is, using multiple subdomains to point to servers and pointing to dns, but besides that it wasnt used for anything else, since we dont sell hosting ourselfs (we host only s2r sites), we decided to use the main domain for the official s2r news and some tidbits and insigh we get on the hosting industry and web software and whatever we feel like, hope you enjoy heheh ^_^

S2R
S2R or the Send to Receive Organization is dedicated to create awesome sites, thats pretty much it heheheh