On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 10:34 AM, jessamyn c. west <jessa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We finally have an ongoing spam cleanup process that is automated and > not just me going through and deleting spammers. Yay! Does that mean I can cross the spam classifier off my todo list? > 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. It appears that thanks should go to volunteer Charles Horn <https://github.com/hornc> for closing <https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/275> this loophole. THANK YOU! > Please let us know if you > notice new patterns of spamming happening that don't seem to be being > caught. > I'll send a few more that I noticed to the ol-tech list, but have you considered changing the "Report Spam" flag so that it feeds into your automated pipeline rather than creating an email that a human has to deal with? That would probably streamline things and provide valuable ongoing input to your automated process. Tom 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 > >
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