[ros-users] Answers.ros.org Spam

[Ugo Cupcic]

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 <info at martinperis.com> 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 at 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 <tfoote at osrfoundation.org>
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
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