Banning blatant spammers

When posting a job, customers are required to provide an email address.  The job will not be posted until the user verifies the email address by clicking on a link in the email.

We’ve decided to also use this as a tool to control blatant spammers.  We are creating a “blacklisted emails” table that will not allow abusers to post any more jobs.  Although this won’t stop all the spam jobs, it should make it more difficult for spammers to post fake job profiles.  

We are also looking into a “commuity-driven” blacklisting / spamming feature where contractors can quickly and easily flag jobs as “SPAM” to help keep the community clean.  More on this feature in future posts.