SPAM rating

[Jochus]

Guests can rate pictures on my gallery. Apparently, some SPAM bot is rating my pictures. Is there a way to stop that bot? Or do I have to disable "guests can rate pictures"

You can find my album @ http://album.jochus.be ...

[Hein Traag]

Use Captcha: http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=36319.0

Cheers
Hein

[Jochus]

That only works for comments, not for rating ... :-(

[Hein Traag]

My bad not awake enough i guess. yes Captcha does not do rating but i have not heard of a bot doing that before so i suggest you indeed disable the guest rating option and include all the people you do want to be able to rate into the registered users group.

[Nibbler]

It has been discussed before actually. If it's a well behaved crawler as opposed to a spam bot then you can add an exclusion into robots.txt for ratepic.php. Check your server access logs to see what it is.

[Jochus]

Log mode is on "everything", but the only thing I see is this:

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Garbage collection deleted logs/global.log.php at January 18, 2008, 9:05 am
Garbage collection deleted logs/security.log.php at January 20, 2008, 12:22 am
Garbage collection deleted logs/access.log.php at January 21, 2008, 1:57 pm

[Nibbler]

Server access logs, not Coppermine logs.

[Jochus]

http://jochus.be/brol/album.jochus.be.log

You mean this one? Or another one?