> I've been in touch with Jessamyn who has been using it to perform those > reverts in the recent changes list.
This is the tool I use to delete spam accounts. From an admin perspective it is *only* useful to detect either - user accounts that are spamming (or have spammed in the past) - old spam records where the user account that created them has already been deleted (error cases) We have a back-end admin tool that is basically "Block/ban user and revert all edits" that we do manually and it's our best tool with the best economies of scale. Charles' tool allows me to cruise through a list of spammers a few times a week and nix their activities and block them. I'd think one thing you could do for ham detection is to look for items that have been added to lists since most of them (that aren't specific spam lists, though we've seen some of them) will be genuine items. You could also look for records added by one of the import bots since they might be wrongly imported (i.e. item linked to the wrong IA item) but they're rarely spam. In fact just items that have an IA link are almost always not spam since the number of steps to do this is often more than spammers want to take. From an admin perspective the major functional things we could do on our end would be to look for suspicious email addresses on signup and have a way to automate the spammer deletion thing so it didn't require an admin intervention. Realistically, as John says, we don't have the resources to dedicate to this. Jessamyn _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
