- Banned Domains
Banned Domains
Certain domains have been banned from /r/cars. This means that Automoderator will remove any comments or posts containing these URLs. He'll leave a note stating that the comment or post was removed and which domain tripped the removal.
Why are they banned?
Domains can be banned for a few reasons. Most were banned for being caught spamming, posting ads, or going over the self promotion limit (in the case of blog owners). Others, such as motor1.com, were banned because they were caught manipulating votes with dummy accounts and their Editor-in-Chief harassed the moderation team repeatedly. Some were added to match Reddit's site-wide spam filter.
That's censorship!
Yes, we censor websites that spam the subreddit in an effort to make things more readable and have higher quality content.
Am I in trouble for linking to one?
Nope, you're fine! We don't penalize people for it since we don't expect people to check this list before posting. We made this page so that folks can be aware that Automod is eating things and find alternate sources for news if they want to post an article.
I found a spammy domain that posts a lot. Can I suggest we ban it?
Sure! Send a message to /r/cars and we'll look into it.
Reporting the thread doesn't make us blacklist it. Gotta send an actual message and talk to us.
What if I want my domain unbanned?
We rarely unban a domain due to the nature of fighting spam. Send a message to /r/cars and the moderators will take a look at why it was banned.
Are you really listing the entire blacklist?
Almost. We're not listing sites that were banned due to posting ads for taxi services and the like. They pop up quickly and banning them is like playing whack-a-mole, so we opted to not bother posting them. The "normal" websites that users might encounter on a regular basis are all listed here though.
Domain List
January 2022
- Due to a massive increase in spam Reddit-wide, this list is no longer being updated (and has not been in quite some time). This is in part to deprive spammers of actionable information on what domains are viable and not. We do continue to revisit the blacklist occasionally and have removed some useful domains once problem actors have departed.
January 2020
- Scotty Kilmer (YouTube channel) - low-quality flame-bait content, often misinformation
August 2019
- fighterjetsworld.com - spammy rehosting of stolen content
Feburary 2019
- listenitaly.com - spam
- veertv
January 2019
- utah-towing - sneaky-beaky spam
- techintale
- trainerstechs - redirects to techintale
- zukus
December 2018
- republicworld.com - blogspam
- suvtrend
- 2019suvs
- 2020suvs - blogspam
November 2018
- swankism.com - spam ring
- doxhut.com - crypto blogspam
- getmyrights.in - spam
- autoworldjapan.com
October 2018
- paradigmshiftracing.com - spamming, submitters deleting history to manipulate ratios
- ingear.cf - repeated spam
- ingear.ml - blogspam
- autospeed.com
September 2018
- carvlogs.com
- viceroyautotrans.com -- ads, blogspam, ban evasion
- rental24h.com
August 2018
- earlytrends.com -- spam
- repairloader.com -- spam domain
- miniowners.org -- spam, karma manipulation, stolen content
- boringportal.com -- you guessed it, more spam
- amplebracelet.com -- tasty when fried, not so much when cold
- newzfeed.me -- spam
- bestaudiomodel.com
- rankuphub.com -- sneaky in-line spam
- en.protothema.gr -- spamming despite repeated warnings
- carfoni.net -- spam
- monitorfinder.com -- spam
- electrek.co -- tabloid EV "news" that is often used to spam agenda-based submissions
- carsoverviews.com
July 2018
- likeengine.com -- stolen content
- autosspeed.com -- blogspam
- teslarati.com -- blogspam accounts
June 2018
- tintman.com -- spam
- pipt.com -- ignored warning to stop spamming
- auto-data.net -- ignored warning to stop spamming
- luxrentalsla.com -- spam
- mhgproductions.com -- repeated spam, ban evasion
- vehiclesuggest.com -- blogspam
- redbubble.com -- known spammer
- geekymint.com -- spam
May 2018
- mbp.mobi -- spam
cnet.com -- promotional spamconditionally approved- safehaven.com -- spam
- technologytangle.com -- spam
- autosreign.com -- spam
- autosmodel.com -- spam
motorauthority.com -- Reddit spam filter-- Removed Aug. 2018
April 2018
- gaspedalwebmag.ml -- spam, harassment
- drivingfellas.com -- spam
- italyluxurycarhire.com -- blogspam
- bigbagblog.com -- stolen content
- hondaengineroom.co.uk -- spamming
- siouxfalls.cruz.com -- spamming and ban evasion
- cgasky.com -- spamming, ignored warning to stop
- usabestcars.com -- spam domain
February 2018
- carsandnews.com -- original account banned for spamming, attempted ban evasion on second account
January 2018
- exoticcarlist.com -- spam domain
- globalautosports.com -- spam domain
- supercarreport.com -- spam domain
- vincheck.info -- constant spamming
- freep.com -- spam account (REMOVED 2021)
- autosflux.com -- spamming
- steemit.com -- spam domain
- earthclassmail.com -- spam domain
December 2017
- carsfellow.com -- spam domain
November 2017
- mirrorreview.com -- spam account
- enndaily.com -- spam account
- mediahouse360.net -- spam account
- usapamphlet.com -- spam account
Initial list dump (posted April 18, 2017)
Future blacklisted domains will be marked with the date they were added.
These were all banned for spamming. Please don't PM the mods asking why a domain was banned.
- .biz, .gs, .info, .ru, .xyz (domains)
- 9rides.com
- authorstream.com
autoblog.com(Removed Oct 31, 2017 since it was removed from the site-wide filter)- autonews.us
- autosbillow.com
- beep.com
- bfy.tw
- blogspot (all sites and domains)
- cargears.net
- carsales.com.au
- carwitter.com
cbc.ca(Removed July 24, 2017)- coinidol.com
- firstpost.com
- foreverpontiac.com
- geeky-gadgets.com
- gofundme.com
- gph.is
- greencarreports.com
- infoclub.us
- kinja.com
- leeroy-diamler-thompson.com
- luxuo.com
- meme.am
- motor1.com (REMOVED 2021)
- ndoda.co.za
- penzu.com
- pinterest.com
- revmatch.me
- revvingitdaily.com
- schibsted.com
- seekingalpha.com
- slashgear.com
thecarconnection.com- theepochtimes.com
- theignitionblog.com
- theodysseyonline.com
- theweek.com
- ubergizmo.com
- vysda.com
- weebly.com
- xautoworld.com