[hibernate-dev] Spam on the Hibernate forum

[Vlad Mihalcea]

Hi,

Can someone make me admin as well, as I can help with the cleaning as well.
Maybe we can integrate the Akismet spam filter on the forum. What do you
think?

https://github.com/EXreaction/phpbb-akismet

Vlad

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Hi Vlad,
> we have lots of spam, being added every day.
> We try to cleanup regularly and when an account is clearly just
> spamming I always it him "for life" but they just keep creating new
> accounts, even though our Captcha is very complex.
>
> The only thing we can do is to keep cleaning regularly: the less the
> adverts are online, the less those people get paid and will move to
> forums. Unfortunately our SEO scores are very high being a specialized
> forum so new groups keep trying.. I suspect this because of having
> observed the IP addressed last summer.
>
> Some of us start their day with 5 minutes forum cleanup, then 20
> minutes helping on some questions.. in the weekends you probably see
> it at its worst as for example in my case I might not clean at all, or
> do a quick check much later than normal.
>
> Sanne
>
> On 5 December 2015 at 09:41, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I saw there is some spam posting on the forum:
> >
> > https://forum.hibernate.org/search.php?search_id=unanswered
> >
> > Can we block the users to avoid sending more advertising links?
> >
> > Vlad
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