Trouble with RailsTeam.com / Rails Team
Update: The people who made this post (I’m assuming RailsTeam.com/Rails Team are spammers. I’m leaving this post up here so we can collect info/anecdotes about them in the comments. Their links here are nofollowed, thankfully.
Although Ruby on rails has many advantages for developers in terms of ease of developing applications [snip] most Web 2.0 programming languages are facing this challenge. The lack of sufficient HTML pages where the search engine really focuses is the main reason why the web application cannot be searched by different search engines.
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is this spam? is that how your company intend to help customers market their websites?
why don’t you actually give us some advice on HOW to overcome the ‘trouble’ with rails?
i’m not being pedantic, but if I see an article with a title like the one you’ve posted, then I expect a bit more from it than this….
“most Web 2.0 programming languages are facing this challenge”
That statement alone assures this article is not worth reading.
A couple of years ago I bought the RailsTeam.com domain and never used it. Several months back a company called Rails-Team.com got in touch with me regarding advertising on Ruby Inside. Those inquiries came to nothing but as I was trimming my domain portfolio, I offered to give them RailsTeam.com. They accepted and that was that.
A few weeks ago, Ruby Inside and Rails Inside had some spam comments linking to RailsTeam.com. I raised this with “Chirag” (chirag [at] fourthmedia.co.uk), my only contact who I gave the domain to and he claimed to know nothing about it. I chalked it down to someone trying to make him or his company look bad.
Two days ago, RubyFlow was then spammed with RailsTeam.com links again in a similar way to this post. I brought it up on Twitter and immediately got three other reports of these folks spamming:
RailsTeam spamming on GitHub. Rails Team spamming on FaceBook. RailsTeam.com spamming the Rails core mailing list.
Today, then, I was surprised to see them attempt to spam RubyFlow yet again.
On the Ruby Inside front, the IP information for who made the spammy comments is: 122.170.9.5 , ABTS-mum-Static-005.9.170.122.airtelbroadband.in - I analyzed the logs for RubyFlow.com and it was the same IP on this site too. I advise if you run a Ruby site, etc, you block out that IP.. I’m going to block the entire class C.
Attn RailsTeam: spam like this will do nothing to help your business and everything to set you back.
It pisses me off not so much because it’s spam but because it’s so damn easy to get a good name for yourself in this field. A good blog with some solid entries, and bam, you can be getting hundreds of visitors from here.
Looks like they created a twitter account to follow every Ruby developer on the planet ;)
Yep, @RailsRubyTeam is now following me too. Clicks block
They just spammed RubyFlow AGAIN. Deleted that post, keeping this one.
And they just spammed again.
93.174.93.130 - - [22/Feb/2010:05:17:47 +0000] “POST /items HTTP/1.1” 302 100 “http://www.rubyflow.com/items/new” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 GTBDFff GTB7.0”
I’ll need to hardcode in stuff to block them it seems. Firewalling them isn’t enough :-(
OK, their URL is blocked explicitly. Undoubtedly they’ll find a way around it, but for now..
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