On 12/07, Ido Rosen wrote:
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Lukas Fleischer
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 at 18:25:47, Andrejs Mivreņiks wrote:
Hi,

Suspending the account is good, though what about messages? Are they
going to be removed? Also there is totally no spam protection that I know of at
this moment in AUR, at some point it might turn out to be a bigger problem than
that today.
[...]

I deleted all 15 comments the user posted. Given that only a very low
number of packages were affected, I suspect that he copy-pasted the
message manually. There is really nothing we can do about that (apart
from disabling comments)...

I'm not sure if this is worthwhile, but:

http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-bogofilter/0.1 (example of
integrating bogofilter to forum comments in Django/Python)

We could add this email-style spam filtering (using bogofilter or any
similar package), and make comments that fail it have to use a
CAPTCHA?  Or just make all comments require a CAPTCHA.  Or a "report
spam" link for comments.

Another thought for improving comments might be to implement
reddit-style upvoting/downvoting.

Not all spam is automated , so just requiring a CAPTCHA wouldn't be very useful. I think a slightly better approach would be to add the comment to a queue if it fails the spam filter, and require a TU to approve it.

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