From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>,
overseers@sourceware.org, Frank Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Remove spam with EditComments extension on sourceware.org bugzilla.
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a65d435a-e949-4837-f3db-2ae46b4f6222@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2c0f641-6433-e5ce-c1f1-9608363f111e@redhat.com>
On 07/14/2016 09:45 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Overseers,
>
> Since we have disabled the ability for anonymous uses from
> editing bugs, the spammers have just started filling new
> bugs with spam content in the description.
>
> We had four such bugs posted on the 12th of this month:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?email1=cucu%40divismail.ru&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=exact&list_id=30036
>
> Even with tag SPAM to hide the content the HTML source of
> the page continues to have the spammy content, likely not
> hiding it from indexing robots.
>
> I suggest we install Mozilla's EditComments extension:
> https://github.com/mozilla-bteam/bmo/tree/master/extensions/EditComments
> And allow admins to wipe spam comments from the database.
>
> That should be enough to make us a hard target and hopefully
> they move on.
Another option would be to set NOFOLLOW on all external hyperlinks,
which might serve as a deterrent as well.
Florian
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2016-07-14 19:46 Carlos O'Donell
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