I have two topsites that use
Aardvark Topsite Script. They are turning out to be the worlds biggest headache because of this little fellow here:
And trust me when I say that I definitely feel like the little dude with the hammer.
The sign-up form has captcha (which appears to be completely useless) and I've set the script so that new submissions need to be approved by me before they appear on the topsite. Which is great except that the spam sites (why are they always Turkish sites?) still display my topsite button and I get killed with button hits from them. It's getting worse and worse every month and I don't know how to stop it. It's chewing my bandwidth; on one of the sites I've gone from 10GB a month to 40GB+ in only two months.
I get this every couple of days:
58 sites in a couple of days?! GO AWAYYYY.
I've been googling away and it looks like this is a common problem, but so far I'm yet to find a solution. If anyone has suggestions, please helppp.