Hi all, The last few weeks there has been a marked increase in spam of the following nature on ask.sagemath
Title: Irrelevant Question Content: How do I do something unrelated to Sage Answer (by different author): Your best way of doing it is at the following website or email link It seems to always be from new users, so I don't think that banning them will be useful, though we could try. Currently, people have been flagging them but NOT closing them, and then I have been deleting them. I think this is the best short-term solution - please do NOT *close* them, as then I cannot delete them. Longer-term, we need to think about ways to keep spam to a minimum at this useful resource. Any ideas? I don't think we want to ask for real registration - there are many people who have not filed tickets since one needs to ask for one at Trac, for instance, and this class of users would probably be even less likely to want to do this. I *do* think that we need a little discussion of privileges at ask.sagemath; is there currently anyone at all who can delete closed questions, for instance? http://ask.sagemath.org/faq/ seems pretty incomplete on such things. I don't even know who the site admin is. Along similar lines, it is silly for Jeroen to have to keep asking someone to move all open tickets to the next release goal - surely he has enough Trac experience to have this privilege :) So it would be helpful for someone who actually knows this stuff to let the rest of us know. I'm sure eventually other even more clever spam issues will bring this up again, sadly... Happy New Year, - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
