BITPORTERS ltd.

My assets have been hammered by spam bots lately. These annoying bots have been trying to form post spam data where ever they can. I added some code to block them out yesterday but I’ve been thinking about a “global solution”. Also it pisses me off that these bots are going through my content and taking away CPU cycles, I wish I could identify them and block them from my services. I really like how Askimet works for blog spam so I rejigged the idea for this problem.

How about someone makes a website called something like IThinkYouareASpamBot.com that has a giant captcha on the home page. When application developers think clients are bots spamming - they bump them there. If the user does not correctly answer the captcha then the website will log the IP and client data into its “suspect” database.

The website can then offer a webservice for application developers to query for “spambot” profiles. App developers can then block traffic and redirect to IThinkYouAreASpamBot incase it is an actual user who can prove they are a user to get removed from the black list.

How to monetize this? perhaps a web-api key membership? Dunno, that’s your job to figure out.