What chongqed.org tries to do
What we are trying to do is pretty simple and pretty logical:
What spammers are trying to do
Spammers vandalize wikis and blogs to get a higher page rank for their website. They insert links to their pages and add their favorite keywords. After a little while they hope that google or some other search engine will find the vandalized page which should then give that page a higher rank when searching for the spammy keywords.
What we are trying to do
We also want a higher page rank. We want to be amongst the top-ranking search results for the spammer's keywords. Of course, we don't want to spam ourselves. And that's why we need you.
What you could do
Add links on your homepages, wikis, and blogs to chongqed.org to chongq the spammers. Use the spammer's keywords in your links. This will increase our page rank for the spammer's keywords so that people searching for those keywords will find information about the spammers, instead of the spammers web site followed by lots and lots and lots of spammed wikis. Here's an example:
<a href="http://spammers.chongqed.org/chongqing">chongqing was the keyword of our latest spammer</a>
To find out what keywords and spammers are currently in our database, visit the spammers page to find the link to the keyword that was used to spam your wiki.
Because this is not simply an effort to boost our page rank, you should also use the spammer submission form to report new spammers so we can inform others about their "search engine optimization" techniques. We try to get new submissions into our database as fast as possible.
Who we are
chongqed.org is a two-man show:
There's Joe, from Texas, USA, a Graduate Student in Computer Science. He's got a chongqing blog and is the evil genius that had the idea to make "chongqing" a new verb. He can be reached via joe@chongqed.org.
And then there is Manni, from Bielefeld, Germany. Psychologist and programmer. He is the webmaster of chongqed.org. If you want to reach him, send email to manni@chongqed.org.
We both are part of the POPFile project. The spamming of the POPFile wiki was what got the whole effort started.