I have a new website that is running on Pligg. Pligg is a great digg clone software but there is some problem with the content management system. Therefore it is very hard to manage users and content. My site is getting some traffic from all the SEO and promotion that I did, unfortunately I am currently facing problem with spams and it is getting out of control.
Control of user and content
It is very hard to control because there is no mass user management panel whereby you can delete or ban any user. The interface is slow if you were to delete / killspam one user by a time. This goes the same with posting of content. Although there is mass disabling but it is still slow when you get 200 spam post.
Bugs
I think there is still a lot of bugs in their javascript whereby some click on the username actually does not work for me.
Deleting from MySQL
Deleting from MySQL also poses a problem when the user deleted have a post, therefore both content and user have to be deleted form MySql. I did that for the 200 spam that I receives, hopefully it does not poses any problem in the later state.
Email Verification
I believe that it is really missing this function. Email verification is quite important to prevent spammer from posting. Hopefully the upcoming pligg version 10.0.0 will fix all this problem.
Upgrades
I did upgrade once and the template was totally gone therefore everything have to be done all over again. They should try to fix this as well.
Alternative
I am now considering Drigg, if anyone have any experience. It seems to be solid because it is actually running on drupal.
I know a site using pligg too. Which is http://www.fark.my/ , I think the site is pretty good and fast.
yes i know notice they are using pligg….just hopefully they do not get spammed….they will definitely encounter problem after that
How about using Recaptcha to filter the comment?
Mr. Guitars: tried that..spam are still coming in this 2 days..hopefully it will reduce the spam..
please do not include any other website link other than your own and no affiliate links
Pligg CMS based website always being attacked by spammers.
Have you heard about that blackhat tool called the autopligg.
It is a really powerful tool that can spam pligg website.
And sadly, it become much more powerful than the pligg script itself.
Syuxx: thanks for the info…..too bad that I was not prepared for it…i guess pligg is not prepared for it too
Here is a review of AutoPligg from this past summer:
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It has started to get a lot more attention as of late and I imagine that unless some major changes are made by the developers of Pligg, it doesn’t bode well. This tool has been around for long enough that Pligg’s developers and community should have come up with actionable solutions.
Sounds good to me. Will check it out.
wah…wanna spam ar u?
Pligg has gotten much better now that they got version 1.0.0 out. Way better than before!
thanks for letting me know….I will give it a try when have the time
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