We finally have an ongoing spam cleanup process that is automated and not just me going through and deleting spammers. We closed up a bug in the system which would allow banned spammers to keep spamming until their current login session ended which is HUGE for our ability to not only stay on top of things but ensure that the bans and deletes we are doing are actually solving the problem. Please let us know if you notice new patterns of spamming happening that don't seem to be being caught.
________ Jessamyn librarian.net ::: jessamyn.com ::: jessamyn.info ::: box 345, randolph vt 05060 On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:12 PM, todd.d.robb...@gmail.com > <todd.d.robb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Yeah, this user stands up: https://openlibrary.org/people/market1 > > > That user is only a few hours old, so they're unlikely to be included in the > data dumps yets. > >> >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Eric Hellman <e...@hellman.net> wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone looked at the OL data dumps recently and can tell me how much >>> of them are spam? Looking at https://openlibrary.org/recentchanges indicates >>> that most records being added right now are not book-related. > > > Spam has been a known, ongoing problem for Open Library. I'm in the process > of training a spam classifier for OpenLibrary and other volunteers have > looked at the issue as well. > > If you're interested in helping, you might want to join the ol-tech mailing > list. Since OpenLibrary is funded at a level of less than one full time > person, basically the only stuff that gets done is by volunteers. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
