On Mon May 04, 2009 at 12:39:06 -0400, Mark Smith wrote: > We have no automatic spam detection. Right now it's a purely manual > process where users delete comments/posts and have the ability to flag > them as spam. These posts show up in a spam management queue that the > support volunteers can process.
OK, that matches pretty well with what I expected. > I'm familiar with your service! I believe it was Denny that pointed > it out to me some time back? Not sure. That sounds likely, it was Denny that introduced me to the fork/site a while ago. > We're really interested in fighting spam, but haven't put much thought > or time into the problem. If you're interested in spam in the context > of something like Dreamwidth, I'd love to chat. You can find me on > AIM as 'xb95', or IRC (irc.dreamwidth.org #dw) also as xb95. I'm definitely interested in seeing how that could be done. I would imagine a good starting point is seeing the comments/entries which have been reported, and verified, as spam. From that corpus we can look to see how liable automated detection is going to be effective. As I learned when I started doing comment detection it is a tricky problem, and far far harder than email spam. (Because you don't get clues such as "HELO blah", and the similar meta-data. You literally receive a piece of text and an IP address. > This is also the kind of discussion we should have on DW itself -- > probably in the dw_dev community. If you don't have an invite code, > ping me off-list and I'll get you one! I received one today, username 'skx'. I'll join the dw_dev community this evening when I'm back online properly. Steve -- http://www.steve.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
