Hi Gijs,
Thanks for cleaning up the spam. There has been quite an attack recently.
We're tracking fighting it in this ticket:
https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/answers.ros.org/issues/76 It appears
that we may be fighting an actual person or a bot capable of getting
through a CAPTCHA which has recently been added for posting below 10 Karma.
I believe that in the long term cleaning up the spam quickly and completely
is our best approach as it will remove the reward for spammers.
Our standard policy is to delete any spam post immediately and block the
user account. After being blocked the user can only contact the moderators
using the feedback link.
If you encounter spam just click the "Flag Inappropriate" button and it
will be queued for moderators to review. Or if you have enough karma you
can just delete it immediately. However if you do delete it, please flag it
first so the moderators get notified and can block the account too.
Luckily it's a busy site and many hands can make light work.
Tully
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:25 AM, G.A. vd. Hoorn - 3ME <
g.a.vanderhoorn@tudelft.nl> wrote:
>
> I seem to remember having seen some earlier topics / threads about this,
> but the answers site is experiencing quite some intense spamming in the
> past few days. I've just deleted 40+ spam questions from a single
> account (alaa.elwakil82@yahoo.com) again.
>
> Would it perhaps be an idea to add some simple countermeasures, like we
> have on the wiki? That seems to be a low enough barrier to not
> discourage newcomers, while at the same time keep spam manageable.
>
>
> Gijs
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