Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-15 Thread Sascha Shaw
On 15.07.2015 00:53, David Phillips wrote: I agree with gt. Not meaning to bike shed further, but if we had a 'not constructive' or 'destructive' flag, and have the comment appear grayed out and flagged for moderation after n flags, this would be a more sane implementation of 'voting' on comments

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-14 Thread David Phillips
I should add that I am not yet advocating such a solution. As others have said, the spam problem is not large enough to warrant it.

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-14 Thread David Phillips
I agree with gt. Not meaning to bike shed further, but if we had a 'not constructive' or 'destructive' flag, and have the comment appear grayed out and flagged for moderation after n flags, this would be a more sane implementation of 'voting' on comments.

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-14 Thread gt
On 14 July 2015 18:54:11 GMT+05:30, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: >Em 14-07-2015 07:01, Prakhar Singh escreveu: >> You can also limit the number messages a person can post. And +1 for >> moderation. Apart from spam, people start discussions, chats, etc in >> comments. There is no way to stop that. A

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-14 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Em 14-07-2015 07:01, Prakhar Singh escreveu: You can also limit the number messages a person can post. And +1 for moderation. Apart from spam, people start discussions, chats, etc in comments. There is no way to stop that. And +1 for layered filters. For example, if two people tag each other repe

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-14 Thread Prakhar Singh
You can also limit the number messages a person can post. And +1 for moderation. Apart from spam, people start discussions, chats, etc in comments. There is no way to stop that. And +1 for layered filters. For example, if two people tag each other repeatedly you can flag it as a chat, and so on. R

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-13 Thread Tai-Lin Chu
I have seen some spam filters that have layers. The first layer is captcha, which blocks most bots. Google recaptcha is very useful in this case. I don't think this will block any human user. In addition, users don't have to enter captcha every time once it determines that a person is not a bot. F

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-13 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Johannes Löthberg wrote: > Not all spam is automated , so just requiring a CAPTCHA wouldn't be very > useful. I think a slightly better approach would be to add the comment to a > queue if it fails the spam filter, and require a TU to approve it. Seems like a lot

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-13 Thread Johannes Löthberg
On 12/07, Ido Rosen wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 at 18:25:47, Andrejs Mivreņiks wrote: Hi, Suspending the account is good, though what about messages? Are they going to be removed? Also there is totally no spam protection that I know of at

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-12 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Em 12-07-2015 15:33, Lukas Fleischer escreveu: The only additional thing I can think of is some flood control mechanism which does not fix the problem itself but helps reducing the degree of damage... Requiring a captcha will prevent some people from posting. Implementing a flood control, might

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-12 Thread Ido Rosen
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 at 18:25:47, Andrejs Mivreņiks wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Suspending the account is good, though what about messages? Are they >> going to be removed? Also there is totally no spam protection that I know of >> at >> this momen

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-12 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 at 17:54:10, Daniel Micay wrote: > On 12/07/15 11:24 AM, Andrejs Mivreņiks wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The user instmania[1] has posted spam links in the comments section > > of almost every recently updated package. For example [2] > > > > [1] https://aur4.archlinux.org/account/in

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-12 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 at 18:25:47, Andrejs Mivreņiks wrote: > Hi, > > Suspending the account is good, though what about messages? Are they > going to be removed? Also there is totally no spam protection that I know of > at > this moment in AUR, at some point it might turn out to be a bigger problem

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-12 Thread Andrejs Mivreņiks
Hi, Suspending the account is good, though what about messages? Are they going to be removed? Also there is totally no spam protection that I know of at this moment in AUR, at some point it might turn out to be a bigger problem than that today. Regards, Andrejs -- Andrejs Mivreņiks PGP Key

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-12 Thread Daniel Micay
On 12/07/15 11:24 AM, Andrejs Mivreņiks wrote: > Hi, > > The user instmania[1] has posted spam links in the comments section > of almost every recently updated package. For example [2] > > [1] https://aur4.archlinux.org/account/instmania/ > [2] https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/warthunder/ I s

Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-12 Thread Muflone
Hi Il 12/07/2015 17:24, Andrejs Mivreņiks ha scritto: > Hi, > > The user instmania[1] has posted spam links in the comments section > of almost every recently updated package. For example [2] > > [1] https://aur4.archlinux.org/account/instmania/ > [2] https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/warthund

[aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR

2015-07-12 Thread Andrejs Mivreņiks
Hi, The user instmania[1] has posted spam links in the comments section of almost every recently updated package. For example [2] [1] https://aur4.archlinux.org/account/instmania/ [2] https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/warthunder/ -- Andrejs Mivreņiks PGP Key Fingerprint: 3872 5DEB BCA5