Re: Remove spam with EditComments extension on sourceware.org bugzilla.

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 07/14/2016 03:45 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.
> 
> Thoughts?

If you are allergic to github, here is the webtools git view of the
EditComments extension:

https://git.mozilla.org/?p=webtools/bmo/bugzilla.git;a=tree;f=extensions/EditComments;hb=HEAD

The related bugzilla upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540
 
Any thoughts about enabling this to allow a core group of developers
to cleanup after the spammer while still leaving the registration an
open process (until we get comment moderation in upstream bugzilla)?

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.