[hibernate-dev] Spam on the Hibernate forum

[andrea boriero]

cleaned up :)

On 5 December 2015 at 15:27, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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