Limiting submissions – good or bad?

icon1 Posted by Geoserv in Featured Articles, General on 04 14th, 2009 | View Comments | 2,282 views

As previously stated by myself and many others, Pligg can be a major SPAM magnet if you let it become one. There are ways however to combat this, namely reCaptcha.

There is a module that Pligg has that enables the Administrator to limit the number of submissions a person can do in a 24 hour period.

While this may eliminate or reduce spam, this has to be the most idiotic thing to use on your site I have ever seen.

This basically penalizes all of your members because of spammers and because you are too lazy to deal with spam and have failed to adopt measures to reduce spam.

Imagine a member who has submitted 2 stories trying to submit a 3rd and then being greeted with this:

limited

congratulations, you just lost a valued member!

Do you honestly think a member will stick around or come back while being placed under these restrictions?  If you do, you have no business running a website.  This has to be the biggest slap in the face for your members I can think of.

While the logic may have some weight here, the use of it doesn’t.

I can imagine Digg or Mixx doing this, they would never hear the end of it.  Folks at TechCrunch would eat them alive and rightfully so.

Don’t penalize your members because your are getting spammed and have taken no steps to eliminate or reduce it yourself.  Don’t be a lazy Pligg install owner and try to take an easy way out.

Would you be a dedicated member of a site that placed such limitations on you just for trying to help the site out by supporting it?  It’s a 2 way street, if you want members to submit and support you, you need to make it easier for them to submit not harder, this backward thinking and I wish anyone who uses it luck as I will not support any site using it.

And more importantly, don’t penalize valued members because of spammers, because if you do all you will have is a site of no submissions or submissions that you are submitting and then I wonder if you would agree with me on this one.

I would love to hear your thoughts and your arguments for actually using this ultimate piece of junk on your site.

Leave me a comment below.

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  • It's good for prevent spamming ;)
  • I don't think limiting submission good way to prevent spams
  • I don't think limiting submission good way to prevent spam.
  • Too bad to hear that :(
  • It's really sad, indeed...
  • The best way to control spam is just to check comments b4 they go live, most good sites have a dedicated and loving owner who will take the time to view all comments before making them live.... simplesss
  • Limiting submission is good for prevent spam and maintain your submissions. It's good thing.
  • hello,Thanks for sharing a good information related limit the number of submissions a person can do in a 24 hour period.
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