Want to change destination url for "Add Post" on Blogs

It's been a very, very, very long time. 

I want to change the destination url for the Add Post link at the top of the Blogs page.

Right now it goes to:  /blogs/my_page/add/

I want it to go to a different page (an information page about why adding blogs has been suspended).

Why?

I'm getting about 100,000 spam blog posts on each of my top Dolphin sites every day. 

I'm currently considering other options as well.  However, I would rather figure out a way to make money on some of this spam traffic, then to ban entire countries from viewing my sites. 

Jason, I have no idea how to address this, but why don't you just remove that menu item from the public?  100,000 spam blog posts - if you are not exaggerating - or even if you are by 10 fold, is ridiculous.  How do you even handle that?  I appreciate your posts here, because you have the largest site that I know of - of the people who post here anyway, and you are a kind of early warning system of what might happen if any of our sites get big.

you can disable both tick marks on the blogs for members and guests, create a new page and change the url on the blogs menu item to point to your new page as to why you have disabled blog posts. 

Okay, thank you CALTRADE and DosDawg!

I'm honestly not exaggerating on that number.  In fact, one of my sites just got more than 235,000 spam blog posts in about 1 1/2 days.  

I will definitely implement some of these suggestions.  However,  the ideal solution (although only temporary) would be to have the Add Post link go to this information page.  

The perfect solution would be to have a mod where certain countries were excluded from being able to register on the site, but were still able to view the site (and therefore click on ads).  I know there is a free mod like this, which has been recommended in threads dealing with Chinese spam, but I have been so far unable to get it to work properly on any of my sites.   Also, I would much prefer something where countries were selected for exclusion, instead of selected for inclusion.  Nevertheless, I have not given up in trying to implement this mod on my sites.  My fingers are still crossed.  

 From my experience the spammers NEVER click ads.. if they did I wouldn't mind the signups, plus I'd be making a fortune, lol.

 or in most cases when considering 'the G' you would be banned from participating in their program. 

but yeah, i have seen where those pesky forkers  do click on the ads. 

 just reading this and thinking on what you state, you know that depending on the profile type, you can dissallow actions to certain membership levels. 

so if you had membershipA could not post anything anywhere,. but could interact with the site otherwise, in a pseudo-readonly method, and set that as the default membership level, then membershipB would be an approved membership where you are controlling who upgrades or charge for that upgrade, even if its as freakpower says, $1.00 a year, then whomever paid the $1.00 would upgrade to membershipB which would allow additional priveleges, i.e. posting a blog. 

i think what you are saying though not limiting to a country, but you can set parameters to control the influx based on the membership levels and what privileges are allowed. 

DosDawg,

Yes, I think your suggestion would be a perfect solution.  I will create different membership levels, and charge a very small fee for a membership upgrade that would allow blog posting (etc.)

Even though I know this will discourage many of  the regular members from posting blogs, it would definitely eliminate all the spam. Besides, 99% of my members are there only for the chat, and never post blogs.  

I'm actually curious if any of these spammers would shovel out a dollar to be allowed to post blogs.  I really doubt it.  

 well for that matter, you could charge a buck and refund $0.50

if a dollar discourages, and you truly have regular posters, then you can upgrade them as a courtesy initially, but inform the regular posters, that you are only charging the minimal fee to keep the blogs clean of spammers or would be spammers, and those who pay, you can recirculate blogs to featured. 

 Nah, they won't/can't pay anything to join/post.  They are only being paid a few bucks to post thousands of links so it wouldn't be cost effective.

You can also make multiple membership levels and upgrade people manually if you don't want to charge your members. You can spot the spammers 99% of the time because of their rediculous email address and screen names, plus they normally post garbage in the "about me" section.

May I ask what your other sites are - other than ustillup ?  It they are that big, they are fairly public anyway.

I get exactly the same problem too...

They all register to the site manually but then use bots/scripts to blast my site with thousands of blog posts and forum postings in one go - few of them are manually submitting.

It's all the usual junk about ugg boots and louis vutton merchandise.

The sooner I can get rid of our Boonex platform the better. I was trying to add a captcha form to the forum new topic page but even that is a complete nightmare due to it all being made up with tons of XSL templates and I can't get php to render on the page.

Incidentally, I just applied this little gem.

Should do the trick :)