Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

Anyone ran SpamAssassin on the offending content created by the spammers? I've been using it on hpaste and it's been very effective at cutting out the crap. On 4 August 2012 19:15, Gwern Branwen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:34 PM, damodar kulkarni > wrote: > > So, another doubt, if detec

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:34 PM, damodar kulkarni wrote: > So, another doubt, if detecting spam is trivial, then why not just send the > detected spam to trash directly without any human inspection? > This may mean some trouble for the posters due to "false positives"; but the > moderator's job ca

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

Hi Gwern, First of all, thanks for your patience. I am willing to do administrator tasks. > > 4. ReCAPTCHA enabled for 'edits adding new, unrecognized external >> links' - which is all of the spam. >> > > This is already enabled. > I guess the problem may be due to "ReCAPTCHA

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Alexander Solla wrote: > We could even have a "report spam" button on each page, and if enough users > click on it (for a given revision), the revision gets forwarded to a > moderator. This would be useless. The problem is not detecting spam, since that's quite tr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

> We could even have a "report spam" button on each page, and if enough > users click on it (for a given revision), the revision gets forwarded to a > moderator. I think, this will be of real use, but should be used along with CAPTCHA because then spammers may "report spam" for everything and an

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:46 PM, wren ng thornton wrote: > On 7/30/12 5:35 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > >> - Block creation of usernames >> o ending with two or more digits >> o with more than one x or q >> o starting with "buy" >> o longer than 20 characters >> o with more than 4 consonants in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

On 7/30/12 5:35 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: - Block creation of usernames o ending with two or more digits o with more than one x or q o starting with "buy" o longer than 20 characters o with more than 4 consonants in a row As other's've mentioned, many of these constraints impose undue burden

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:59:28 +0200, Alexander Solla wrote: Does anybody have statistics about how often pages are edited/added? In the last seven days, there were 251 new (user)pages created; there was no spam added to existing pages. I also discovered spam added to pages at http://ha

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:42:40 +0200, wrote: On a side note, image based CAPACHA's can cause problems for blind people. Googles ReCaptcha can pronounce the text to type. Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html Haskell programming -

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

On 07/30/2012 05:35 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:03:49 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl > wrote: > >> >> I am willing to do administrator tasks. >> >>> 4. ReCAPTCHA enabled for 'edits adding new, unrecognized external >>> links' - which is all of the spam. >> >> This is already

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

On 31 July 2012 05:35, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: >... with more than one x or q This would exclude legitimate Chinese (pinyin) usernames for not much gain. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > > > - Verify new wiki accounts, before granting them rights, >based on e-mails in the Haskell mailing lists >(or subscription of a Haskell mailing list) This is a nice idea, but I think it will end up moving spam onto the mailin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

ACHA's can cause problems for blind people. -- Původní zpráva -- Od: Henk-Jan van Tuyl Datum: 30. 7. 2012 Předmět: Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki "On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:03:49 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > > I am willing to do a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:03:49 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: I am willing to do administrator tasks. 4. ReCAPTCHA enabled for 'edits adding new, unrecognized external links' - which is all of the spam. This is already enabled. The HaskellWiki is still flooded with spam; we should take