* Account creation disabled on GCC Bugzilla
@ 2014-09-01 10:36 Frédéric Buclin
2014-09-01 11:02 ` Florian Weimer
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From: Frédéric Buclin @ 2014-09-01 10:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: GCC Mailing List; +Cc: overseers
Hello,
I again disabled account creation on GCC Bugzilla due to spammers being
still very active. 117 user accounts have been created since yesterday.
102 have been identified as spammers and have been disabled. For the
remaining 15 accounts, I have no evidence that they are spammers. At
least one of these 15 accounts is valid, so I don't want to blindly
disable them all, see https://pastebin.mozilla.org/6263691 for the list
of still enabled accounts.
311 bugs have been created on GCC Bugzilla since yesterday. Only 2 are
valid bugs. The remaining 309 ones are all spam and have been moved into
the 'spam' component and marked as INVALID.
Frédéric
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2014-09-01 10:36 Account creation disabled on GCC Bugzilla Frédéric Buclin
@ 2014-09-01 11:02 ` Florian Weimer
2014-09-01 11:10 ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-10-23 19:01 ` Jason Merrill
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From: Florian Weimer @ 2014-09-01 11:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LpSolit, GCC Mailing List; +Cc: overseers
On 09/01/2014 12:35 PM, Frédéric Buclin wrote:
> 311 bugs have been created on GCC Bugzilla since yesterday. Only 2 are
> valid bugs. The remaining 309 ones are all spam and have been moved into
> the 'spam' component and marked as INVALID.
Have you considered setting the rel="nofollow" attribute on external
hyperlinks? Allegedly, it provides a disincentive to spammers.
--
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
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* Re: Account creation disabled on GCC Bugzilla
2014-09-01 10:36 Account creation disabled on GCC Bugzilla Frédéric Buclin
2014-09-01 11:02 ` Florian Weimer
@ 2014-09-01 11:10 ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-09-01 12:55 ` Joel Sherrill
2014-10-23 19:01 ` Jason Merrill
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jakub Jelinek @ 2014-09-01 11:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Frédéric Buclin; +Cc: GCC Mailing List, overseers
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 12:35:57PM +0200, Frédéric Buclin wrote:
> I again disabled account creation on GCC Bugzilla due to spammers being
> still very active. 117 user accounts have been created since yesterday.
> 102 have been identified as spammers and have been disabled. For the
> remaining 15 accounts, I have no evidence that they are spammers. At
> least one of these 15 accounts is valid, so I don't want to blindly
> disable them all, see https://pastebin.mozilla.org/6263691 for the list
> of still enabled accounts.
>
> 311 bugs have been created on GCC Bugzilla since yesterday. Only 2 are
> valid bugs. The remaining 309 ones are all spam and have been moved into
> the 'spam' component and marked as INVALID.
Thanks. Would e.g. captcha on account creation help?
Jakub
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* Re: Account creation disabled on GCC Bugzilla
2014-09-01 11:10 ` Jakub Jelinek
@ 2014-09-01 12:55 ` Joel Sherrill
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Joel Sherrill @ 2014-09-01 12:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jakub Jelinek, Frédéric Buclin; +Cc: GCC Mailing List, overseers
On September 1, 2014 6:10:40 AM CDT, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 12:35:57PM +0200, Frédéric Buclin wrote:
>> I again disabled account creation on GCC Bugzilla due to spammers
>being
>> still very active. 117 user accounts have been created since
>yesterday.
>> 102 have been identified as spammers and have been disabled. For the
>> remaining 15 accounts, I have no evidence that they are spammers. At
>> least one of these 15 accounts is valid, so I don't want to blindly
>> disable them all, see https://pastebin.mozilla.org/6263691 for the
>list
>> of still enabled accounts.
>>
>> 311 bugs have been created on GCC Bugzilla since yesterday. Only 2
>are
>> valid bugs. The remaining 309 ones are all spam and have been moved
>into
>> the 'spam' component and marked as INVALID.
>
>Thanks. Would e.g. captcha on account creation help?
Based on my experience with a musician fan site, the answer is no. We have a very stupid and obvious question that google does not give an answer for. That slows them down enormously.
Also there are some sites which list known spam my accounts. My wife uses a couple of them. I think one is stopforumspam.com. you may be able to automate checking for the account there. These are manually reported account by forum admins.
--joel
> Jakub
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* Re: Account creation disabled on GCC Bugzilla
2014-09-01 10:36 Account creation disabled on GCC Bugzilla Frédéric Buclin
2014-09-01 11:02 ` Florian Weimer
2014-09-01 11:10 ` Jakub Jelinek
@ 2014-10-23 19:01 ` Jason Merrill
2014-10-24 15:08 ` Christopher Faylor
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jason Merrill @ 2014-10-23 19:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LpSolit; +Cc: GCC Mailing List, overseers
What should I tell a user who wants to create an account?
Jason
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