[ros-users] Answers.ros.org Spam

[Christian Dornhege]

Hi,

On 03.07.2014 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>
>
> 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 ?
As far as I know moderation features are being worked on right now.

For deleting questions: I'm not sure if there are different
requirements for blocking/deleting questions, but check out the
moderation tab. There is (for me) a button "Block user and delete all
content". This makes it unnecessary to delete individual questions.

Best,
   Christian

> 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
> <mailto:iisaito at 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 at osrfoundation.org <mailto:tfoote at 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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