Posted by Anonymous on July 3, 2014 at 4:42pm
I'm about to have to remove myself from this group if I get any more email from turkeys in Turkey spamming this group with new wiki pages. Somebody please do something about it. I've notified G.D.O several times in the issue queue but I can't continue to police this mess. It's gotten out of control now.
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I almost removed myself too.
I almost removed myself too. It is happening in other groups too. I think groups.drupal is under attack =/
Most of these spammers'
Most of these spammers' accounts are less than 24 hours old. Maybe a first approximation is to require a waiting period before creating new wikis?
It's been so long since I got my drupal.org account I have forgotten, but do you need to verify your email address when you sign up? If not, perhaps yet another option.
Great suggestion
This may be a good time to look at the account policies for GDO. Looks like spam filtering should be a priority issue, and could even be a case study/selling point for Drupal when it has been successfully implemented here.
Banghouse, one of the maintainers for Omega, has already commented that the admins haven't responded yet...
For the record, I'm not a
For the record, I'm not a "maintainer". I've just worked with the maintainers on documentation mostly. I don't have administrative access to this group either. I have filed spam issues a few times that were addressed by g.d.o maintainers but the spam keeps coming with new users. I was just posting this to say that I can't keep on creating spam issues as it seems the attack is relentless.
I looked at the issue queue
I looked at the issue queue and it seemed that all posts reporting spam have all been closed and "fixed" due to being duplicates. https://www.drupal.org/node/2104323
While it is marked "critical" it seems to be ignored due to the comment at the bottom
I don't think it's ignored by
I don't think it's ignored by any means. I delete spam most every day. It just takes some time.
knaddison blog | Morris Animal Foundation
Hey greggles, I was not
Hey greggles, I was not implying that the spam wasn't being deleted because it definitely has been quickly removed. I feel the issue, which is marked critical, has been ignored since the last post was 7 days ago.
I appreciate your thankless work =)
OK, I still don't think it's
OK, I still don't think it's being ignored, I just don't think there is much that can be done other than cleaning up as quickly as possible.
knaddison blog | Morris Animal Foundation
If Mollom wouldn't suck so
If Mollom wouldn't suck so bad we would be in much better shape: https://www.drupal.org/node/2104323
The problem atm is that gdo is still not on D7 which would allow vastly improved measures. The upgrade itself won't happen soon (I think we are allocating resources for the start of next year) so we can only apply band aids currently. Mollom had a much better phase a couple of weeks ago but has regressed lately again.
here, volunteer
I'm crazy too with this issue. If is necessary some help till the maintainers find a good solution, I'm a volunteer for be cleaning this spams, or anything else will be necessary.
I'll help too
Greg
If you need more help, feel free to enlist me also.
I still think a 24 waiting period for new accounts before being able to post might help if coupled with verification of the account email address.
Gregg
I see two stumbling blocks to
I see two stumbling blocks to that idea:
Anyway, https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/groupsdrupalorg is the place to propose and work out ideas.
knaddison blog | Morris Animal Foundation
What about?
Greg, I can also help if you need it...
Also, would blocking the offending IP range be a good tactic? Some projects I have worked on in the past did this to block particularly offenders...
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Blocking IP ranges has never been effective on d.o.
Teaching Mollom Turkish, however, would be a great starting point. :|
Good points.
Good points.
Perhaps just block IP of users who post spam?
Majority of SPAM I got in last few weeks came from 2 users:
danigirrl and denigirll which i believe are the same person... So perhaps looking into that users IP and blocking the IP they create the account from would solve the problem better than just blocking the user since they will just create a new account from which they can SPAM on.
Drupal web developer and Search Engine Optimisation consultant at Webmar Design & Development Brisbane, Australia
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The are some anti-spam modules for Drupal
Spambot is a good module for that.
There was definitely no spam
There was definitely no spam from danigrrl (danigirrl doesn't exist): https://groups.drupal.org/user/39043
You may have got updates triggered by posts under her frontpage promoted announcement re: User profiles but that is something you can control in your user settings.
subtle variations on usernames as a trick
There was spam from "danigirrl" (note extra "i"), not "danigrrl", a well-known user. The spam-generating username has been deleted.