The Pligg project has never been the fastest open source cms system to release updates to their code-base, over the past two months however it would seem updates to the project have went from a slow pace to a complete...
Author: Lincoln on April 2nd, 2008
Category: Pligg
Tags: development, halted, Pligg, pligg updates, stopped
You probably thought pligg was getting better at dealing with spam entries, well you would be wrong pligg sites are a heaven for spammers and the developers haven't even attempted the simple task in v9.9.0 of adding email verification...
Author: Lincoln on March 28th, 2008
Category: Pligg
Tags: askimet, Pligg, pligg spam, PyCurl, spammers
Back in December 2007 AshDigg coded a great module for pligg that aimed to improve spam protection by using the popular Askimet service that was developed by the founder of wordpress. The module worked pretty well but one drawback was...
Author: Lincoln on March 17th, 2008
Category: Pligg Modules
Tags: anti-spam. pligg spam, askimet, pligg askimet spam module
This week both TechCrunch and Mashable picked up a story from the pligg blog relating to the pligg development team launching a Ning, CoRank like service that is based on pligg. CoRank has a head start on fraxi but if...
Author: Lincoln on December 24th, 2007
Category: Pligg
Tags: digg clone, fraxi, ning, Pligg
Over the past few weeks many pligg based webmasters have been voicing their concern's over massive spam attacks on their user registrations and comments, some pligg sites have seen 100's of users registered in a short period of time and...
Author: Lincoln on December 13th, 2007
Category: Pligg
Tags: hackers, Pligg, PyCurl, security vulnerability, spam
In the CMS world pligg has been long renowned for it's ease to make spam comments and posts, up until now the Developers had done very little if nothing to tackle this problem. It would seem after post's at the...
Author: Lincoln on December 11th, 2007
Category: Pligg Modules
Tags: module, Pligg, pligg askimet spam, pligg askimet spam module, pligg spam