On 03/07/14 12:33, Martin Peris wrote:
> Dudes,
>
> I must have deleted near 100 spam questions just in the last hour in
> answers.ros.org <http://answers.ros.org>
I've created this recipe in IFTTT so I get a notification in my phone
for each new post, this has been useful with the last banned user
because all notifications came in once.
https://ifttt.com/recipes/187228-ros-answers-new-post-notification
>
> 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 ?
+1
>
> 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
> <mailto:iisaito@opensource-robotics.tokyo.jp>>:
>
> For Gmail users who still like to receive email notifications from
> answers.ros.org <http://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
> <tfoote@osrfoundation.org <mailto:tfoote@osrfoundation.org>> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > As many of you have noticed answers.ros.org
> <http://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 <http://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
> >
> >
> >
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Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC/UPC
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