Mostly likely we will wind up adding a moderation queue and moderating
new users first few diary entries.
I don't have any developer experience with it but Akismet[1] seems to
work quite well on Wordpress and we seem to get the same kind of spam
I regularly see in my Wordpress spam queue. They
What about a default filter for the main page that only shows people who
have x number of edits.
Or allow people who are established user to approve or vote on new entries
from new people.
I think there should be a way to report spam effectively, that would be the
best solution.
mike
On Mon, Mar
On 16/03/10 11:33, Lars Francke wrote:
I don't have any developer experience with it but Akismet[1] seems to
work quite well on Wordpress and we seem to get the same kind of spam
I regularly see in my Wordpress spam queue. They seem to be focused
solely on blogs and especially Wordpress blogs
On 16 March 2010 11:43, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
I already looked at Akismet but as you say, we would have to pay unless
we counted as a non-profit and then we would have to put links everywhere.
Could Mollom[1] be an option? I'm not sure we really fit into the
'small community site'
On 16 March 2010 11:58, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
Mollom is an alternative to Akismet but it suffers the same problems.
Otherwise SpamAssassin should mostly do the trick.
There is also http://defensio.com/ which is free during beta.
Although depending on the interpretation we
Hi,
On some sites I mange, there are lists of suspicious words/markup. If
there are too many of these in the post (call it a spam score), then
they are sent to a 'please confirm you are human', where an anti-bot
code must be entered before the post is allowed.
Andy
Why don't you set up your own (non-standard) challenge, some kind of:
Here are 6 pictures, select those two that show a stop-sign.
You could permutate the pictures, kind of signs and filenames randomly.
Other than some kind of mathematical challenge (like in the wiki) this
would be somehow
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Andreas Labres l...@lab.at wrote:
Why don't you set up your own (non-standard) challenge, some kind of:
Here are 6 pictures, select those two that show a stop-sign.
I get the impression that the people posting spam are actually humans
going through the
Andy Deakin schrieb:
Hi,
On some sites I mange, there are lists of suspicious words/markup. If
there are too many of these in the post (call it a spam score), then
they are sent to a 'please confirm you are human', where an anti-bot
code must be entered before the post is allowed.
I
Hi,
Ian Dees wrote:
I would rather see an interim solution of having flag as spam links
on every diary page (and in the RSS) and then a bunch of moderators to
take care of heavily-flagged items. I volunteer to be one of these
moderators.
Can't we do something that is more related to our core
On 16 March 2010 14:18, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
Ian Dees wrote:
I would rather see an interim solution of having flag as spam links
on every diary page (and in the RSS) and then a bunch of moderators to
take care of heavily-flagged items. I volunteer to be one of
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Tom Hughes wrote:
On 15/03/10 13:21, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
I think one really effective way of dealing with this is to reject
addition of a user description or a diary entry if the user is quite new
and has no OSM edits yet. This would
On 17 March 2010 09:45, Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net wrote:
But we need not make that description or their diary entries visible to
other users until they have gained some reputation on the site -
presumably by making map edits.
This is a dangerous path, it's too easy for these
On 16 March 2010 17:33, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 March 2010 09:45, Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net wrote:
But we need not make that description or their diary entries visible to
other users until they have gained some reputation on the site -
presumably by
Hi guys,
The spam on users' diaries and users' pages is getting quite annoying. Some
user just now flooded the main diary page with drug ads. Using rel=nofollow
is apparently not much of a deterrent.
I think one really effective way of dealing with this is to reject addition
of a user
Correction: ... reject addition of a user description or a diary entry
*with a link or a URL*...
This is to reduce false positives.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi guys,
The spam on users' diaries and users' pages is getting quite annoying.
On 15/03/10 13:21, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
I think one really effective way of dealing with this is to reject
addition of a user description or a diary entry if the user is quite new
and has no OSM edits yet. This would correspond to the Wikipedia user
without the autoconfirmed bit set
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