Fighting The Bots: The Comments Section Reborn

As you may have noticed over the last week or so, our comments section has been under severe and constant attack by spambots. And the more we delete, the more we get spammed on every post we publish.

We’ve had our best guys on the case and have now implemented some changes to the spam filter that will put an end to it all. This will allow us to no longer depend on third parties for our comments section, and with the new system you can now sign up using your social logins to make things easier.

I look forward to chatting to you all in the new and improved comments section!

Dino Dalle Carbonare
Instagram: speedhunters_dino
dino@speedhunters.com

Digital Art by Khyzyl Saleem
Facebook: TheKyza
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taskforceranger117

Finally!! Those spambots really annoying af

2

Awesome but do I have to use social logins to post? Can I not sign into your website and post under an alias for privacy?

3

Thanks.

4

Thank god! I remember reading one post and it had 5+ new comment notifications.

5

thank the lord!

but now nobody will ever know that my uncle got a mercedes by working at home :(

6

Great news! You know, my brother just got a great job $98/hr

:) jk lol. Seriously the bots were getting out of hand lol.

7

it's about time. i'm tired of getting email notifications for speedhunters posts, but it was really just god damn spam. it pisses me off so much with the spam.

8

But I want to know how to make $8761/month from Home!!!!!!!!

9

But can we still sell ourselves here? I need a nice set of 20" wheels for my wide body M35 Stagea with a R35 GTR front conversion and well.. ill do what it takes.

10

good look - cuz my p0rn daze are over bro - LOL

11

Great news! The spam had to go... a little sad tho' as my life's goal was to collect more "likes" than TarmacTerrorist, then maybe launch my own lifestyle brand or something. The second part of the plan is still a work in progress.

12

Yaaaaaaaay! Well done guys great news

13

I'm a sexy young Russian blonde looking for love in the UK, you can find me here...

dirtyrussianbirds.ru

Only joking!

It's about time, they were getting a slight bit tedious

14

"Dude I almost had you" XDD

15

You've no idea how close you were to being banned XD

16

This feels nice. I think I have PTSD from dealing with all that spam over the last few weeks.

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Welcome to the new Comments Section! There will be some issues with cache so we suggest visiting these two URLs and refreshing them a few times to get the latest updates: http://bit.ly/SpeedhuntersJS http://bit.ly/SpeedhuntersCSS

You'll see a load of really hectic looking browser code. Its ugly but it'll refresh your locally cached versions of these two important components of the site

18

Finally no more alerts and spam mail

19

finnnalllllyy those were so annoying

20

Great change, the social media login doesn't work now though.

21

Working on that now

22

why can i not post a comment?

23

nevermind. finally worked. should provide more ways to connect. I don't have a facebook or twitter.

24
BlackAuraSpectre

Thank god. It's about time this happened.

25

nice!

26

Great! Excited for the new experience.

-Alex

27

Sweet!

28

Don't go to the HKS Ultimate Drift Car article... you've been warned...

29

Why the change, I was having fun trying to find a horny milf in my local area.

Joking aside it was fucking annoying

30

Great work SH, thanks so much. The spam was beyond terrible, those people should be shot behind the wood shed with no ceremony.

31

Solid. Like it. Bravo

32

SpeedHunters has truly made the comment section, "Great Again"! ;)

But seriously though, thanks for fixing the comment section for us. Any idea why the bots were hitting the site so hard with spam?

33

Ha ha- thank you :) It was largely due to Livefyre being sold to another company who decided to let it die. This new system gives us way more control as we're not relying on a 3rd Party any more. Still some kinks to iron out but at least we are in control now. The bots may return but we can fight em :D

34

New Social Login process being deployed in the next 24 hours. It'll give you way more options. And it'll actually work.

35

HALLELUJAH

36

Looks good to me. Would like to be able to sign into the site and not use a social login though.....

37

Coming soon...

38

Quick dev tip to refresh cache on js and css files just reference them with and additional querystring variable i.e. /js/main.js?v=2 or v=3 or v=4 etc.... Good news on spam though!

39

FINALLY!!!

40

Great stuff I got it working on mobile devices now too!

41

finally

42

Yay! Back to comments about cars

43

Thank you guys for your hard work and getting this sorted. I know if it irritated us, it must be driving you guys bonkers. But dammit I had 12+ years commenting with those old IDs lol

44

yyyeewww

45

Good to see the spam gone.

46

Nice! Can finally go back to just seeing what the genuine trolls are saying!

47

Yes......Sayonara to those bastard spambots....

48

Great news guys, scrolling through 30 spam comments to find the first human one was extremely annoying.
I thought Skynet might be causing it!

49

Hooray!
And 'Hello World'.

50

Great to hear that! I was so tired of sexy young blonde girl who looking for love in [insert country name here].
btw, nice LaFerrari drone from Khyzyl Saleem.

51

I was dreading seeing a bot comment at the top of the list, but no! Good job guys!

52

Finally those stupid adds. Couldn't see any real comments there were so many

53

Glad to see the bots taken care of, now to get used to this new format real quick.

54

Testing testing 1..2..3..

55

Excellent. But yes as someone said more social connections would be rad!

56

whhooa, well now how am i supposed to fine sexy girls online one on one ? great!

57

Thank god!

58

Loving all the 'Car Spotlights' and 'Feature Cars' Lately!
Keep it up guys!!

59

Great to see, thanks guys!

60

Nice

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Paul M Skelly Jr.

Huzzah! Thank you for your efforts!

62

Yay!!!!

63

Now it's way easier to comment! Great! And f*ck those spambots!

64

Thanks goodness! Man I was getting tired of those spam bots! Let's hope they don't get this now either or else they'll be riots in the comments section.

65

Shame to no longer have disqus integration as I use this across a few sites, but whatever you needed to do, as it was getting REALLY bad!

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Reinaldo Gonzalez

Thanks to those guys :)

67

Testing, testing.

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Fernando Moutinho

Trying out the new comment section. Hey, this is neat! A much neeeed improvement. Nice work guys!

69

Are you looking for lovely sexy woman to have love with ..... just joking, I'm a bloke....
seriously though, good to see its gone now !

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