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Spam Domain Black List

UPDATED August 6, 2007

Here is a list of spam settings you can use for US based forum ban settings. This includes across-the-board bans of several domain blocks including .ru, .biz, .info and .ty – check the list to make sure these are the settings you want. 95% of my spam comes from this domain list. This list will not work well for forums outside the United States – most US-based community members will use a .com or .org email address that is legitimate.

If you’re new to black hat SEO practices and spam ranking campaigns you might want to read my article on Black Hat SEO – A lot of people aren’t hip to the fact that the money is made off attempts to improve search engine ranking (which don’t work any more by the way) and spammers that sell this service to money driven entrepeneurs.

I know many forum admins are now blocking all yahoo and gmail accounts as well – I have many members who use those domains so I’m not quite ready to block them yet.

This list is comma delineated so you can cut and paste into your ban settings. This list is generated from actual working forums and spam has been received from these domains or domain extensions.

The global extension bans are listed first (example: banning all “.ru” domains). The asterisk is your wild card command. For example: *@mywebsite.com would ban all emails from that entire domain, whereas “*@*.com” would ban all dot com domains. Since most legitimate US based users will use dot com and dot org addresses, we have banned virtually all other extensions, including the spam-ridden .tv, .info, .biz and similiar domain extensions. With over 100,000 registered users on my forums, I can count the number of legitimate “.ru” email member accounts on one hand.

There are some duplicates in this list, but PHPBB software automatically eliminates duplicates so shouldn’t be a problem. If you don’t want to be complete extensions, then eliminate the front of the list. Sadly, this list is only a PARTIAL list of complete spam domains. I’ve eliminated most .biz, .tv, .ro, etc. domains because this list includes a global ban. I have only included the worst offenders on this list.

This list is not a list of “spam domains”, but it is a list of domains that are used for spam to such a degree that we cannot keep up with it manually. For instance, “web.de” also has many legitimate users – but the largest use of that domain for forum registrations is by spammers, so that’s why it is on the list. You also may consider adding hotmail.com to the list if you are receiving too much spam from those accounts.

*NOTE – This list is comma-delineated for use with PHPBB. This is a SINGLE PARAGRAPH list which you’ll see once you cut and paste it. The appearance of spaces is from my blog text layout, it’s actually one list, no space gaps. You can use this list with any program you like; just format it for your required format. I will keep this list updated when I updated my own forums.

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// Last Updated August 6, 2007

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Definition of Internet Troll

Often I see forum members who are actively trolling and when confronted with this respond: “What is trolling? I’m not aware of what that is.” I think their response is genuine. So here is a fairly detailed definition of trolling. It usually applies to online communities. The act of trollling also consists of entering communities where the member is full aware their involvement is not appropriate.

Definition of Internet Troll and Online Trolling

In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who enters an established community such as an online discussion forum and intentionally tries to cause disruption, often in the form of posting messages that are inflammatory, insulting, incorrect, inaccurate, absurd, or off-topic, with the intent of provoking a reaction from others. Trolls can also be existing members of such a community that rarely post and often contribute no useful information to the thread, but instead make argumentative posts in an attempt to discredit another person, more often than not based on what they thought was said rather than what was actually said by the other person, concentrating almost exclusively on facts irrelevant to the point of the conversation, with the intent of provoking a reaction from others. The key element under attack by a troll is the forum or group’s hegemony. Hegemony refers to the recognized and agreed upon power structure of the said group or community. To this extent, a troll does not necessarily have to make malicious or incorrect comments. For example, a liberal-minded person who approaches a forum frequented by right-wing neo-nazis, may be considered a troll, even if no lies or attacks are made.

A person who retaliates (using whatever means) as a result of a misunderstanding (or as a way of rebelling against the overzealous application of rules) is not a troll. A troll is a person who approaches a board with the specific intention of destroying a forum’s hegemony, either with no particular motive or provocation in mind, other than to be purely destructive or if the motive or provocation is against the ethos of the board. For example, a neo-nazi approaching a Jewish forum with the intention of attacking the members, purely because the neo-nazi knows the forum to contain Jewish members, may be considered a troll. A Jewish member of the said forum, who becomes angry with the neo-nazi and breaks the rules in gaining revenge against the neo-nazi, and who is subsequently banned and who then begins to rebel, is not a troll.

The general element, that determines whether a malicious user is a troll or not, is the level of indignant emotions present in the person, coupled with the person’s history with the forum or group. An indignant user who has had a previous normal relationship with the group is not a troll, even if the user uses methods of attack that are characteristic of a troll attack.

The term Troll is often used as an insult in online communications, resulting in it being largely misapplied.

From Wikipedia Trolling

Rap – Destruction of Alexandria Library

alexandria-library.jpgT-Stylez, a member of our RapDogs.com hip hop battle forum, said he could write about any subject and wanted people to test him. I gave him the subject of the Destruction of the Library at Alexandria. Here’s what he came up with:

Third century BC, Aristotle student Demetrius of Phaleron
had a idea for a library Which was gonna be so strong
that scribes were so precise that the originals were in the Library
Egypt had the finest library in the world, u gotta agree
Then According to “Plutarch lives” written at the second century
the man known as Caesar, had a conquest a 48 BC
He wanted to burn the library by settin of a fire-in-docks
But it didnt work good so he luckely didnt retire-the-rocks*
But Then there was a emperor named Aurelian with a revolt
It made huge loses but the library still was good controlled
Was it known as the everlasting or as the lucky thing
But in 391 theophilus had something to bring,
Or rather to take cuz he took away alot of the books
Right after that in 641 the muslims took some looks
All the books need to have on of the biggest erases
so Commander Amr bin al’s dilemma then took a big places
Touching the books you mention, if what is written in them agrees with the Book of God,
they are not required; if it disagrees, they are not desired. Destroy them therefore hot.”
Now a days some historians say its just a false tale
If u ask me, this library was unable to fail

Hip Hop Speaks Out: We Cannot Be Denied

world-headphone.jpgGemcee, a moderator at my hip hop forum RapDogs.com, has written a great article called We Cannot Be Denied. It talks about turntable courses at Berklee College of Music and the work professor Stephen Webber has done to promote the recognition of hip hop in academic circles. Professor Webber has also helped create the Harvard University Hip Hop Archives website which tracks hip hop’s movement and effect on our society.

As a female Canadian rapper, author Gemcee gives unique perspectives on hip hop culture.

Excerpt from the article:

Do rappers read? Yes silly, they do. In the movement that is Hip Hop we have created a niche for writers who come from this culture. Writers like Toure, Cheo Hodari Coker, and Nelson George who are great reflections of Hip Hop journalists. Also, popular fiction novelists like Sistah Souljah and Erica Kennedy, who’s novel “Bling” I am reading right now.Some people believe that much of the Hip Hop literature that is around perpetuates stereotypes. The truth is, these novels reflect the harsh realities that many youths face. Their redeeming qualities are the fact that they are brutally honest and they share the consequences of decisions. These books are used to communicate in a way that is considered meaningful and anything to get kids reading and thinking, should be considered a positive.

So in the movement that is hip hop, a place where we have created poets, philosophers and independent, intelligent thinkers….it also inspires street novels. Chalk another one up for Hip Hop. Literature like this confirms that the spreading influence of hip hop is reaching far and wide. We cannot be denied.

Creation vs. Evolution Debates

creationtalk.jpgWe have a little buzz of activity in the Creation vs. Evolutioin debate forums at CreationTalk.com – This site is a free public discussion forum for evolution, creationism, intelligent design and related topics. Currently on this forum is a healthy mix of creation and evolution supporters that are debating each other with gusto.

If you have any interest in these areas please checkout this forum. It’s also a good place to learn about the art of debate. Several of the members on this forum are extremely well-read, studied and come from a wide variety of scholastic backgrounds and religious beliefs.

Authors and Editors on Forum Websites

shake.gifWould you like to be an Author or Editor for our forum websites? We’re looking for people to represent our forum communities with news and thoughts related the overall forum subjects. It’s pretty fun and similiar to what you’re reading right now.

INTERESTED?
If you’re interested please PM (private message) the admin from your forum account. If accepted you will receive a PM with your seperate login info for your author account. You must PM from your forum account so we can verify who you are. PM the admin and say “I’d like to be an Author” or “I’d like to be an Editor”.

AUTHORS
An author is a member who writes articles, news and thoughts that would be of interest to the community as a whole. If you’re a member of our forums, you’ve already been an Author!

EDITORS
Editors can also write articles, but also can edit submitted articles and news posts. Editors need basic knowledge of HTML. An HTML view panel is provided if needed for articles. If you use FrontPage, Dreamweaver or have built websites, then you probably have all the tools you need. Editors do NOT need to know how to code HTML by hand, but need to be able to spot layout or code problems if it arises. It’s not very scary if you know a little about HTML.

WHAT’S THE POINT?
We are in the process of updating our online communities and this is a first step into moving them towards more interactive portals. There are a lot of exciting things in the works and you’re involvement is crucial to the growth of our communities. If you are passionate about the subject matter on your particular forum, then you are the perfect person for this.

HOW OFTEN DO I HAVE TO WRITE ARTICLES?
There is no set requirement. You can write one every day or once a month. Your involvement is up to you.

AN EXAMPLE OF ARTICLE POSTS
Let’s say the website you’re a member of is a Snowboarding forum. You could write reviews of snowboarding equipment, post links to new snowboarding products, talk about beginner tricks and tips, post weather conditions at featured ski resorts, talk about your last snowboarding trip, write thoughts about snowboarding articles on CNN.com with a link to the original article, write about the music snowboarders listen to – that’s just a start. You write about what you are interested and passionate about.

ONE PER NETWORK
To encourage the diversity of our communities, members can only be an author on one of our sites.

Planned Forum Outage

Some of our forums will appear to be down as they are moved to a new location. This will only be for select forums as I prepare our Christmas Day gift launch for forum members.

Forums will not actually be down, but DNS transfer will be propogating. Most members will probably not notice it. I’ll be doing it after midnight USA PST probably sometime the week of 12/10/06

I am not posting this as a network wide bulletin because I anticipate most users will not notice any downtime.
I think you’ll enjoy the Christmas Day surprise.