PING ABUSE & BAN LIST
Several people have been emailing me about violaters with regards to ping abuse e.g. ping flooding (multiple pings within a 7 minute period), ping spam, ping advertising, etc. Thank you to all those who care enough to write in to keep PPS clean.
I've decided to take a tougher stance on ping violaters -- sites that are obviously commercial in nature will be BANNED without warning, blogs that repeatedly ping flood (even if its accidental -- you are responsible for your blog!), will be BANNED.
I need your help to keep PPS clean as i dont monitor it 24/7. Pls leave a comment here with the offending pinger, provide the URL and blog/website name. I will investigate every case and take necessary action.
Thanks to all in advance. PPS2 will come online later this year and that should solve most of these problems, but till then, this is the best solution available.
UPDATE: This thread has received a lot of feedback lately, but not all comments received will be published below. Only the ones that i've taken action on will be published. Thank you all for caring about PPS.
UPDATE 2: The following is the PPS BAN LIST. You have been banned due to abuse of the PPS Policies.
http://www.putera.com
http://xialanxue.blogspot.com
http://www.themovieleague.com
http://www.3gpclip.com/
http://dublinskyklu.blogspot.com/
http://www.szehau.com/
http://www.toxicle.org/
http://health.cornerstone-team.com/
htp://techcenter.zonecircle.com/
http://asyraflee.blogspot.com/
http://chinesemusicblog.com/
http://transferfactormsia1.blogspot.com/
http://www.ustradebank.blogspot.com/
http://www.usetradebank.blogspot.com/
http://www.boredworkers.com/
http://momoti.blogspot.com/
http://holistic-aikido.blogspot.com/
http://www.2dayblog.com/
http://rouxified.blogspot.com/
http://finfredom.blogspot.com/
http://www.astronomynotes.net/
http://www.ebernie.net/
http://xingxiaxue.forumer.com/
http://www.jelas.org/
http://xingxiaxue.forumer.com/
UPDATE 3: For Wordpress users who are upgrading your software, pls be sure to remove the PPS ping URL from your autopinger before you upgrade -- failure to do so will result in a ping flood, and will get your blog banned. Also, any commercial blog will get an immediate ban.
UPDATE 4: Spammers are getting smart and trying several tricks to bypass the system. I'll be getting more aggressive, and banning certain key phrases that are being used. This may inadvertently block out some legitimate pings by mistake. Please bear with this temporary solution, the next version of PPS will resolve these issues.