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 _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev

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(a)hibernate.org&gt; 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(a)gmail.com&gt; > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > hibernate-dev mailing list > > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev

FYI Vlad now has webmaster- level permissions on the forums too, and a nice Hibernate Team badge. Good luck, and try to not ban innocent users ;-) We could try something like Akismet, but does someone know if there are chances to make it work with our very old version of the forums? I don't think it's going to be easy to get changes on this system. Did you have good experience with Akismet? I'm sure our platform team would be more inclined to help if we'd ask to integrate some OSS solution, so we'd need some compelling arguments to change that. Also these systems are heavily firewalled.. using an external PaaS might not work at all, as in some cases opening up ports is a non-negotiable option. On 5 December 2015 at 19:01, andrea boriero <dreborier(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > cleaned up :) > > On 5 December 2015 at 15:27, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad(a)gmail.com&gt; 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(a)hibernate.org&gt; >> 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(a)gmail.com&gt; >> > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > hibernate-dev mailing list >> > > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev