Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-24 Thread Thierry
Hi, On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:13:28AM -0800, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:09 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > I thought of one more issue here. Has the new branch of sagenb where the > > "report a bug" link goes to ask.sagemath instead of the Google doc gone live > > yet? That woul

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-21 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:09 AM, kcrisman wrote: > I thought of one more issue here. Has the new branch of sagenb where the > "report a bug" link goes to ask.sagemath instead of the Google doc gone live > yet? That would be unfortunate at this time. If somebody with server admin skills (especi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-21 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2014-02-21 19:09, kcrisman wrote: I thought of one more issue here. Has the new branch of sagenb where the "report a bug" link goes to ask.sagemath instead of the Google doc gone live yet? Yes, it's like that in Sage 6.1.1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Googl

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-21 Thread kcrisman
I thought of one more issue here. Has the new branch of sagenb where the "report a bug" link goes to ask.sagemath instead of the Google doc gone live yet? That would be unfortunate at this time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-21 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:03 AM, kcrisman wrote: > Looks like William just redirected ask.sagemath to his own homepage for now. I have disabled http://ask.sagemath.org until somebody fixes the backend spam-related problems. Hosting spam = quick way to have all my network access at University of

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-21 Thread Niles Johnson
On Friday, February 21, 2014 9:50:18 AM UTC-5, kcrisman wrote: > Does someone have access to the actual database? I suppose it could be done at that really low level too. That's what I had in mind (not that I would know how to do it myself). After that I think the natural step is to upgrade

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-21 Thread kcrisman
Looks like William just redirected ask.sagemath to his own homepage for now. I had almost finished deleting all the spam, too ;-) Good thing I was giving an exam! On Friday, February 21, 2014 9:50:18 AM UTC-5, kcrisman wrote: > > > > On Friday, February 21, 2014 9:40:56 AM UTC-5, kcrisman wrot

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-21 Thread kcrisman
On Friday, February 21, 2014 9:40:56 AM UTC-5, kcrisman wrote: > > > > On Friday, February 21, 2014 9:11:33 AM UTC-5, Niles Johnson wrote: >> >> Now that I've spent a little time thinking about this, here are some >> comments: >> >> * I misread our version of askbot -- it's over 2 years old >> >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-21 Thread kcrisman
On Friday, February 21, 2014 9:11:33 AM UTC-5, Niles Johnson wrote: > > Now that I've spent a little time thinking about this, here are some > comments: > > * I misread our version of askbot -- it's over 2 years old > > True. > * recent versions of askbot (6 months ago or so) can put a captc

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-21 Thread Niles Johnson
Now that I've spent a little time thinking about this, here are some comments: * I misread our version of askbot -- it's over 2 years old * recent versions of askbot (6 months ago or so) can put a captcha on users' first posts * some of the spam is posted as "Anonymous" -- but that still requi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-21 Thread kcrisman
On Friday, February 21, 2014 7:52:45 AM UTC-5, Niles Johnson wrote: > > hmmm; we need a bigger hammer here. There was no more spam coming in when > I left the office last night, but now at least the first 7 pages are full > of spam from several different users. I can't delete that many by han

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-21 Thread Niles Johnson
hmmm; we need a bigger hammer here. There was no more spam coming in when I left the office last night, but now at least the first 7 pages are full of spam from several different users. I can't delete that many by hand. On Thursday, February 20, 2014 1:16:46 PM UTC-5, kcrisman wrote: > > > >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/20/2014 12:14 PM, Niles Johnson wrote: > > There are a number of ideas on the askbot support site > > http://askbot.org/en/question/7893/suggestions-for-antispam-measures/ > > but I don't know which of them are available in our version of askbot > (roughly 1 year old). > I have a bit of

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-20 Thread kcrisman
On Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:48:53 AM UTC-5, William wrote: > > Hi, > > I found that I'm an admin (which makes sense) -- I've changed kcrisman > and niles to be admins. You can make other people admins as you see > fit under "Moderation" --> "Change status to:". > > Thanks, awesome. -

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-20 Thread kcrisman
On Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:14:45 PM UTC-5, Niles Johnson wrote: > > Blocking and deleting posts helped a lot. But now this particular spammer > seems to be waiting a little while and then creating a new user to add more > spam (I've blocked and deleted the same spam from 4 or 5 separate

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-20 Thread Niles Johnson
Blocking and deleting posts helped a lot. But now this particular spammer seems to be waiting a little while and then creating a new user to add more spam (I've blocked and deleted the same spam from 4 or 5 separate users now). I don't know how to deal with that. There are a number of ideas o

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-20 Thread Niles Johnson
Thanks -- deleting spam now . . . On Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:48:53 AM UTC-5, William wrote: > > Hi, > > I found that I'm an admin (which makes sense) -- I've changed kcrisman > and niles to be admins. You can make other people admins as you see > fit under "Moderation" --> "Change statu

Re: [sage-devel] Re: admin for ask.sagemath

2014-02-20 Thread William Stein
Hi, I found that I'm an admin (which makes sense) -- I've changed kcrisman and niles to be admins. You can make other people admins as you see fit under "Moderation" --> "Change status to:". On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Niles Johnson wrote: > I was just going to ask the same question. Karl