You Can DM Anyone You Want On Twitter

Over the past couple of days Twitter rolled out its most recent update, which is the ability to send a DM to anyone - even if you don't already follow them. And you would expect with *any* type of change, people moan... and I'm quite dumbfounded as to why people are moaning about it?

By default, the option (as you can see below) is unticked/unchecked.

*DUURRRRRRR!!!*

So you're not "open" to DM's from *anyone*, so you shouldn't be moaning! And if you're such an absolute retard to... [read more]

How To Stop Spam On Your Website

Update: Post Updated 9th June 2013 08:09pm

Automated spam is wild now-a-days on the internet and if you run your own website, you'll know that there's many methods you can use when you encouter spam to deter it. However, one easy way I've found, which is VERY simple and easy to do is by creating a simple checkbox that if left unticked will tell your script that the person is not human and will not continue sending their message.

On your form

<input type="checkbox" name="notbot"> Tick this box to confirm you're not a bot.

On your script

How to Stop Twitter Spam DMs

Are you constantly getting messages from your followers on Twitter saying that you're sending them these fake messages, that're usually like "you ar famous now haha *facebook link*" or "Someone's talking about you *facebook link*"? Well a lot of people think these are caused by a virus on your computer. Well to be honest, I highly doubt they're spawned from viruses.

To stop any spam direct messages being sent from your account to your followers on Twitter, please check your "Apps" section in your "Settings" area, as it would 99.9% of the time be YOUR... [read more]

Spam Bots

Why don't spam bots and the people that spawn them understand... this blog based site I've created has a filter system on it that I made... so why waste time spamming me with links to enlarge my penis or to get cheap viagra or (the worst) see slutty Paris Hilton naked... jesus.. we've all seen it! Goodness me.

Go spam somewhere else... as I'm starting to get annoyed with a couple of hundred spam posts a day... though it does keep me busy. I do actually find it quite funny that underneath the links in the posts they always have a... [read more]

IP Banning in Force

Well, I'm sick of spam bots hijacking my forms with all the hundreds of links that they automatically post, so I've just sat here and made a very simple - but effective - method of removing them. Basically every page you go to on dalehay.me now initiates a little PHP based function, which takes your IP address and tries and matches it within an array of many others, if it finds a match, you can't see the site. Simple as. So any spam... means a straight up ban. :)