NameAGalaxy changes

I have a site NameAGalaxy.com that lets you name a galaxy. I originally put in 12,000 galaxies that I extracted from a public database. Last week it ran out of names. I got a few complaints, but I ignored them figuring that it was stupid users. I finally checked to day.

Someone had used up about 1,000 galaxies to promote something, but I don’t allow links, so they did not show up correctly. All I know is that they had some kind of program to load the crap onto the site.

I deleted them and I added about 60,000 new galaxies to the pool. I then changed it so that they have to manually confirm a galaxy from an email message before it goes through.

I also noticed a lot of childish obscenities on the list so I implemented a routine which changes nasty words into the word “flower”. This should slow things down.

NameAGalaxy makes about $500 a year and I hope I won’t have to mess with it ever again.