Re: [CsMain] Solving the SPAM issue on the CS site

On 12.02.2010 08:43, Jorrit Tyberghein wrote:
> You may be aware or not but we're having a lot of problems with spam on
> the CS site.
> We tried captcha's but apparently these are now being solved
> automatically so that
> is no longer a solution. So we think that at this moment the best
> solution will be
> a moderation system so that before a new account is accepted a moderator
> must
> first approve it. It is annoying and will slow down bug reporting by new
> users
> but I see no other way :-(

This isn't a "new" idea - for example, VLC does it that way already for
a while (http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/). But yes, it will be annoying.

Do you already know how the moderation system will work?

> In addition to the moderation we also need to get rid of all current
> spam users that
> are already in the system. To do that I propose that we start clean.
> Everyone who has
> an account on the CS site that he wants to keep can send me a mail.
> These accounts
> will NOT be deleted. ALL other accounts will be deleted at the end of
> this month.

Please keep mine - 'res' ;p

If there is a way to see what/how much a user has contributed we could
probably get a good heuristic on what are spammers and what not - most
spam account made only one contribution on a "User Talk:" page. If it's
feasible and easy to filter by that the cleanup could be more
conservative and retain more legitimate user accounts without everyone
having to speak up.

-f.r.

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