Am 25.10.2006 um 17:18 schrieb Ilias Lazaridis: > Noah Kantrowitz wrote: >> I know this has come up before, but the false positive rate for >> Askimet >> on t.e.o is getting to be problematic. Just as an off-the-top-of- >> my-head >> proposal to improve, could we add some kind of karma tracking system? >> Start each anonymous session at a fixed karma (lets say 10), and only >> allow them to post thing while that stays over a threshhold. >> SpamFilter >> would run its tests on each submission, and set it up something >> like -1 >> karma for each failed test, +0.1 for each passed one. While this >> would >> probably let through more spam than the current setup, I think the >> number of people that might be turned off from using Trac (or from >> writting docs/bug reports) is even worse. I have been helping Alec >> with >> spam monitoring (and deleting) on trac-hacks, and would be happy >> to help >> on t.e.o too. >> >> --Noah > > I have myself a few times problems to add comments to tickets. > > Today, new tickets and even comments to a ticket > > http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/4019 > > were rejected with a simple "Akismet rejected spam". > > This makes using trac difficult and has a _very_ demotivating effect.
(Coincidentally, Google groups has also started flagging many of your messages as spam, putting them in the moderation queue. No idea why, but it'd probably help if you wouldn't prefix every friggin' subject with some uppercase word :-P ) Now about Akismet (again): yeah, it produces lots of false positives, and the integration with Trac needs to be much improved (adding moderation and training). However, it currently is the *only* way we have to stop many kinds of spam attacks. You have *no* idea what would be happening on the Trac site if it wasn't enabled. We'd be spending all of our spare time on cleaning up after the spam, legitimate submissions would drown in the noise, and the whole project would grind to a halt (yeah, that's slightly exaggerated, but not that much). You're tickets usually contain quite a number of links to your own site. Have you tried removing those? Personally, I'd prefer not having to read up on stuff on another site when it doesn't even add any value to the actual ticket, which I feel is often the case with the links you post. Until someone comes up with actual improvements to the anti-spam measures available, we'll have to keep things as they are now. Cheers, Chris -- Christopher Lenz cmlenz at gmx.de http://www.cmlenz.net/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
