Hi Maciej, Am 13.02.2013 um 14:06 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <[email protected]>: > Our OSQA-powered site, http://www.opencsw.org/community/ is getting spammed > and is not getting any user input. OSQA itself doesn't have good facilities > for fighting spam. For example, to get rid of harmful links from spam > profiles, we need to run SQL queries by hand (thanks go to Dago for doing it > recently). > > 2013/2/2 Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> > We have spam from time to time and I usually just delete it. It may probably > be best to just enable moderation on new accounts if possible. > > People / users are not registering there and not asking questions via OSQA. > We have roughly these choices: > > 1. Close /community/ and copy existing content into a static page (on > wordpress) or wiki, or some other place (the manual?). Create a HTTP redirect > from /community/.* > 2. Try harder: Upgrade OSQA to the newest version (trunk from upstream svn) > and start promoting the site so maybe people will start registering. > 3. (credit goes to Trygve) Use the "opencsw" tag in serverfault.com. Try to > create a link to a form with the tag prefilled. Then subscribe to unanswered > questions with the tag. An example: > http://serverfault.com/unanswered/tagged/solaris - also via RSS: > http://serverfault.com/feeds/tag/solaris
4. Ban yahoo and hotmail users as they match 100% of the spam producers. Best regards -- Dago > > Thoughts? > > Maciej > _______________________________________________ > maintainers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers > .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::. -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
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