We recently made it clear in this comment that we will aggressively monitor and block users and sites engaging in blogspam. However, it seems that a lot of users are confused on what constitutes blogspam.
The definition of blogspam in quite simple and is explained in detail here
1. Find interesting content somewhere on the Internet
2. Post […]
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Blogspam on IndianPad
11-Aug-08New Feature - Upcoming Stories
03-Aug-08We just added a new link on the front page that takes you to the ‘Upcoming Stories’ page.
The Upcoming Stories is a dynamic page that tracks all stories that are close to appearing on the front page and it only displays stories that you have not voted for yet.
We have been working on ways […]
New Moderator Features on IPad
24-Apr-08Over the last couple of months, the amount of spam and irrelevant links have sky-rocketed on IndianPad. One of the primary reasons for this is our high Google PageRank which has attracted a lot of spammers.
In most cases, our most frequent users who saw this spam could do nothing about it and consequently we […]
Senior users get more powers
26-Jan-08We have always given more power to users who have a high karma as they spend a lot of their time interacting with this site. A new user can quickly gain karma but sustaining it at a high level requires a lot of effort.
We recognise this fact and all users who have a […]
Google Ads go on a Holiday again!
13-Dec-07Some of you may have already noticed that the Google Ads have disappeared from IndianPad. We are not sure what caused this as we did not receive any notices. We have opened a case with Google Adsense and will pass the information as soon as we hear back from them. However, its the holiday season […]
We would like to involve the IndianPad community to increase visibility and support for NGO and charity organizations that are doing some great work in India.
We are planning the following for a start but are open to any suggestions to improve this program…
We will advertise organizations that are recommended by our members. We encourage you […]
Voter Analytics - Where are they from?
27-Oct-07You can already view the users who have voted for a story. Now, you can also view the country they are from. This is especially useful for votes from anonymous users as it gives you another insight on where the target population for a story is from…
Check this story for example and click on the […]
Some changes to Server Security
23-Oct-07We have been under a pretty determined DOS attack over the last couple of days. We made some temporary adjustments but that did not do the trick. So today we made some significant changes to our security model and updated a lot of components on our server.
If you see any anomalies or weird behavior on […]
This assumes that you have entered your Adsense ID in your profile to make money from Google ads shown under your stories. Check here for more details…
Have a descriptive title as all ads are targeted to the text that appears there.
We use section targeting so if your post only contains pictures then you should have […]
New changes to curb fake accounts
12-Oct-07 We are making some changes based on this and other posts.
First, anonymous voting is not a big problem as you need a large number of them to come on the first page and too many of them will certainly attract scrutiny from our bot. The bigger problem from our perspective is fake accounts!
Changes
Users found […]