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I'm currently working on a project called Spam Directory. The basic idea is to provide an API where users can submit or get information about spammers. The idea behind it is to implement this API into Blogs or Forums.
If a user now tries to make a comment/post, which is reported as spammer in our database, they should not even be able to post. If people mark someone as a spammer, it will be submitted to our directory. The idea is that there is a frequency of how often a user has been submitted (because one time submission, doesn't necessarily means that this person is definitely a spammer).
I hope you get the basic concept of my project :-). now to the questions.
First of all, can I get into any privacy problems with this Project? I collect Email, Username and IP Addresses of the so called spammers, without even asking them. How can I avoid getting problems because of that?
Basically everyone can submit spammers. I implemented something like an API Key, so only registered users can submit Spammers, which will help me to monitor and block people. Now, what happens if someone submits email adresses of the competition, to make something like a character assasination. (Yes, I know, my project will not necessarily be enough popular to really hurt someone, but still...). I thought of something like flagging entries as inappropriate, so if someone thinks an IP, Email or Username is not a spammer, they should be able to flag it. One thing which I thought could help was to store also the messages of the users, which were marked as spam (which will work on comments, but not on forums). this gives us some other problems like privacy or data amount.
As you can see, there are quite some problems I'm facing with my project, so I would like to hear your oppinion to this whole thing.
Last edited by ninom; 01-31-2009 at 04:36 AM..
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