Hi all,
I am quite confident that
Bad Behavior, and standard, heavily used plugin in the Wordpress community, is an excellent solution to this problem. Bad Behavior is designed to stop all types of bots. Combined with Akismet, which is designed to stop manually entered spam, Pligg would have excellent protection. It is beyond me why the Pligg developers have never incorporated these simple protection mechanisms into the base product (at least the option to turn them on). It is impossible to have maintain a clean, heavily used site without these protections.
In addition, I would like to have the
Google Safe Browsing API incorporated into the base application, in order to minimize Google blacklisted pages suspected of phishing and malware.
I would like to build a Pligg site on Links.com that will be designed to highlight new sites on the web, but I need to incorporate these APIs as well as a new skin before I can do it. If there is a developer who can take on this assignment, please contact me.
Rich