Anyone ran SpamAssassin on the offending content created by the spammers?
I've been using it on hpaste and it's been very effective at cutting out
the crap.
On 4 August 2012 19:15, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:34 PM, damodar kulkarni
kdamodar2...@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:34 PM, damodar kulkarni
kdamodar2...@gmail.com wrote:
So, another doubt, if detecting spam is trivial, then why not just send the
detected spam to trash directly without any human inspection?
This may mean some trouble for the posters due to false positives; but the
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Alexander Solla alex.so...@gmail.com wrote:
We could even have a report spam button on each page, and if enough users
click on it (for a given revision), the revision gets forwarded to a
moderator.
This would be useless. The problem is not detecting spam, since
Hi Gwern,
First of all, thanks for your patience.
I am willing to do administrator tasks.
4. ReCAPTCHA enabled for 'edits adding new, unrecognized external
links' - which is all of the spam.
This is already enabled.
I guess the problem may be due to
On 7/30/12 5:35 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
- Block creation of usernames
o ending with two or more digits
o with more than one x or q
o starting with buy
o longer than 20 characters
o with more than 4 consonants in a row
As other's've mentioned, many of these constraints impose undue burden
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:46 PM, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote:
On 7/30/12 5:35 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
- Block creation of usernames
o ending with two or more digits
o with more than one x or q
o starting with buy
o longer than 20 characters
o with more than 4 consonants
We could even have a report spam button on each page, and if enough
users click on it (for a given revision), the revision gets forwarded to a
moderator.
I think, this will be of real use, but should be used along with CAPTCHA
because then spammers may report spam for everything and anything
So it looks like email confirmation for new accounts and ReCAPTCHA for
new links are both enabled, but clearly spam is still a problem. Are
there any additional measures we can take to cut down on spam?
For the record, if we need to move to a manual approval process for
new accounts, I would be
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:42:40 +0200, timothyho...@seznam.cz wrote:
On a side note, image based CAPACHA's can cause problems for blind
people.
Googles ReCaptcha can pronounce the text to type.
Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:59:28 +0200, Alexander Solla alex.so...@gmail.com
wrote:
Does anybody have statistics about how often pages are edited/added?
In the last seven days, there were 251 new (user)pages created; there was
no spam added to existing pages.
I also discovered spam added to
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:03:49 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl
wrote:
I am willing to do administrator tasks.
4. ReCAPTCHA enabled for 'edits adding new, unrecognized external
links' - which is all of the spam.
This is already enabled.
The HaskellWiki is still flooded with
cause problems for blind people.
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Od: Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl
Datum: 30. 7. 2012
Předmět: Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:03:49 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl
wrote:
I am willing to do
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nlwrote:
- Verify new wiki accounts, before granting them rights,
based on e-mails in the Haskell mailing lists
(or subscription of a Haskell mailing list)
This is a nice idea, but I think it will end up moving spam
On 31 July 2012 05:35, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl wrote:
... with more than one x or q
This would exclude legitimate Chinese (pinyin) usernames for not much gain.
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On 07/30/2012 05:35 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:03:49 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgt...@chello.nl
wrote:
I am willing to do administrator tasks.
4. ReCAPTCHA enabled for 'edits adding new, unrecognized external
links' - which is all of the spam.
This is already
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:03:49AM +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 02:39:30 +0200, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote:
2. Additional administrators must be created. I suggest:
- dons
- Magnus Therning
- Neil Mitchell
- byorgey
- Henk-Jan van Tuyl
I am willing to
I recently moved, and when I returned to the Internet a few days
later, I was greeted with several hundred spam pages in Recent
Changes. The torrent of spam has not let up, and I estimate that I
have blocked 3-500 accounts and deleted as many pages. (I blocked
another 5 or so while composing this
More admins on the wiki is good, esp. those with experience to implement
anti-spam measures.
Ashley is around , but as usual, we need more help.
On Saturday, July 14, 2012, Gwern Branwen wrote:
I recently moved, and when I returned to the Internet a few days
later, I was greeted with several
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