Just over a week ago I mentioned Jerktowne, a website that you can send people to if they are being jerks. I've been working on it a little, and just as I promised, I've developed an API that will let anybody with a website running PHP to connect to my database of jerks. This will allow you to do a quick background check on all of your visitors, giving you the power to restrict your content as you please. Nobody wants jerks reading their website.
Every time a user visits Jerktowne, their Jerk Rank is increased by one. This is limited to a one-time increase every 24 hours. For example, if somebody gets sent to Jerktowne 50 times in a day, their Jerk Rank will only increase by one. However, if they are consistently sent to Jerktowne every day of the week, they would gain a significantly higher Jerk Rank than others. This means you could optionally restrict your website from jerks who have a Jerk Rank higher than five, or ten, or even just one.
You can download the API here. It comes with an example file to get you started.
Also, I know the Jerktowne website isn't very pretty yet. It will be, one day.
Jan 17, 2010 Update: Links removed because Jerktowne is no more :(
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I was looking at websites in the wayback machine and I decided to dig up some of my older projects from when I went to NAIT in 2004. I found this flash game that I used as one of my final projects. Play it here. It's basically like lunar lander, except you have to dodge asteroids while collecting fuel. It's actually incredibly difficult and everyone complained how impossible it was. But if you try really hard, there is an ending. It's even still on Newgrounds. It originally had a scoreboard, but it no longer works.
I also made a 3D render of some kind of tentacle monster in a dumpster of a dark alley. It was originally animated with falling rain and a flaming trashcan next to the dumpster, but I can't find those original files anymore. This is the only thing that remains.
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I came up with an idea for a website. It is a really good idea. This is the idea: The idea is somebody sends you to www.jerktowne.com if they think you are a jerk, and in doing so, your IP address is collected and you are forever labeled as a jerk. Forever. Except if your IP address changes, of course. I wish there was some way to uniquely and permanently identify every single user on the internet, just so my website idea will work better.
Eventually the dream is that there will be a single database of all the jerks on the internet, and any website owners out there will be able to access my database and restrict jerks from viewing all their cool content.
Jan 17, 2010 Update: Links removed because Jerktowne is no more :(
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