Hey, If you're a moderator, there's a very handy "block user and delete all content" if you click on the spammer, then go to moderation tab. Driving me crazy too! Cheers, Ugo On 3 July 2014 12:33, Martin Peris wrote: > Dudes, > > I must have deleted near 100 spam questions just in the last hour in > answers.ros.org > > Right now there is 4 different accounts pouring spam at a rate higher than > what I can delete... how about restricting to 1 question per day to users > with karma < 10 ? > > One more suggestion: Right now to delete a question you have to click on > it, see the full text and then hit the "delete" button on the bottom on the > page (which for long spam messages might take some scrolling). The total > process takes about 5 seconds for spam message, but since a human moderator > can identify an obvious spam message only by the title... how about adding > a "flag" and "delete" button (only for moderators and people with high > enough karma) directly besides the title of each question on the main > question list? This might save us a lot of time. > > Best regards, > Martin. > > > 2014-07-02 8:44 GMT+09:00 Isaac I.Y. Saito < > iisaito@opensource-robotics.tokyo.jp>: > > For Gmail users who still like to receive email notifications from >> answers.ros.org but want to avoid those from spammers, I've been >> making a blacklist. >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4eRVCbkJoNxh36HCO-5HfvLikaSzYmX7U5rz7nRCb0/edit >> >> Not perfect but HTH, >> Isaac >> >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Tully Foote >> wrote: >> > Hi Everyone, >> > >> > As many of you have noticed answers.ros.org has been subject to a lot >> of >> > spam recently. We have been working on adding technical issues, however >> the >> > spammers have been able to overcome standard defenses like CAPTCHAs >> which we >> > have added. I'm putting out this call to request a few more moderators >> for >> > the site. Answers.ros.org is powered by the community and has been well >> > maintained by the several moderators who were initially volunteered >> several >> > years ago. >> > >> > In light of the persistent spamming by technically savvy spammers, our >> best >> > defense is to leverage our strong community. We have a very active site >> and >> > if each person helps just a little the spam can dissapear very quickly. >> > >> > To everyone, please use the "flag offensive" for any spam you encounter, >> > whether it's in a question or an answer. This will bring it to the >> attention >> > of the moderators who can block users. If you have enough karma you can >> also >> > delete the post, however please flag it first so that the moderators can >> > block the user as well. >> > >> > We've recently expanded the pool of moderators however I'd like to >> expand >> > the pool of moderators to include a few more people from various >> timezones >> > who have demonstrated contributions to the site(>500 Karma). If you are >> > interested in becoming a moderator please contact me off list. >> > >> > Tully >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ros-users mailing list >> > ros-users@lists.ros.org >> > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@lists.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- Ugo Cupcic *Senior Software Engineer*+44 20 7700 2487ugo@shadowrobot.com www.shadowrobot.com -- ------------------------------ *Shadow Robot Company Ltd.* 251 Liverpool Road, N1 1LX, UK Registered Number 3308007 (England & Wales) RoNeX - Building Robots with ROS Made Easy http://www.shadowrobot.com/products/ronex/ ------------------------------