Address comments being spammed. #105
Labels
No labels
A11y
Automated Testing
Contributable
Contributed
Decision
Design
Development
Drutopia
IndieWeb
Infrastructure
Launch Critical
Marketing
Needs documentation
Post-Launch
status
Abandoned
status
Blocked
status
Deploy
status
Doing
status
Done
status
Duplicate
status
In Review
status
Needs Clarification
status
Test
status
To Do
type
Bug
type
Task
type
User Story
No milestone
No project
No assignees
1 participant
Notifications
Due date
No due date set.
Dependencies
No dependencies set.
Reference: geo/geo-coop#105
Loading…
Add table
Add a link
Reference in a new issue
No description provided.
Delete branch "%!s()"
Deleting a branch is permanent. Although the deleted branch may continue to exist for a short time before it actually gets removed, it CANNOT be undone in most cases. Continue?
Background
There are many spammers trying to comment on geo.coop They are being stopped, since anonymous comments must be approved, however a lot are coming in, taking a lot of time to moderate.
Work Required
Hi @joshua_davis ,
We could try adding a CAPTCHA or other spam protection to comments, but it also seems like a lot of these comments are from legitimate humans who have very spammy causes. If that's right, it seems like requiring people create an account before being able to post comments would be the better approach. What do you think?
assigned to @joshua_davis and unassigned @cedewey
changed title from {-Spam filter check?-} to {+Address comments being spammed.+}
changed the description
I'm not a fan of requiring account set-up to comment. Right now, the
spam is just an annoyance, so unless it gets considerably worse, I think
we just leave it for now. Ideally, we could just have a simple filter
that automatically rejects comment that starts with "<a href..." which
would deal with 80% of them.
Josh Davis
Content Manager
Grassroots Economic Organizing
geo.coop
406-274-3214
Can we install http://drupal.org/project/antibot or configure honeypot differently? I do not have admin access to reconfigure the spam module.
assigned to @mlncn
unassigned @joshua_davis
@mlncn There is more spam daily now, I get cc'd.
If you can give me access I can try to configure honeypot or if you can install drupal.org/project/antibot I think we can set that to filter out the spam that has links in it.
marked this issue as related to drutopia/drutopia_core#37
@FreeScholar See also https://gitlab.com/drutopia/drutopia_core/issues/37
(Will just also add that my long-held dream is that creating an account happens seamlessly while leaving a comment, but would give the option to require a little more information making it easier to spot and possibly automatically stop spammers.)
@mlncn I updated https://gitlab.com/drutopia/drutopia_core/issues/37 with this info: I changed the Honeypot to look for 'url' instead of 'site'. I did check the reports for the list of field names to be sure I was not blocking something valid. If this does not work, I suggest using the antibot module as Hannes does also, I have no spam issues with it on my sites.
mentioned in issue #110
@FreeScholar's change seemed to help for a brief while, but we are back to being hammered as hard as ever.
I've enabled Antibot (it was already there @FreeScholar !) and we'll see if it helps.
Antibot requires that a person commenting have JavaScript enabled. Unfortunately, it provides no warning and no alternative approach to someone visiting the site without JavaScript or without JavaScript enabled.
unassigned @mlncn
closed
marked this issue as related to #122