Yes its vanilla forums. I've been busy and haven't checked in in week or two and it appears most of the spam didn't start till ~the end of sept/beginning of oct. There's (unfortuantly) no easy, quick way to delete multiple posts at once :( Having forums that were actively maintained by gnome would be nice, but that's been flat out refused multiple times. I'd be happy to assist with official forums, as I have with these, but thats never been an option and has in fact been flat out refused.
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> wrote: > I can tell you from experience that this forum software can be very easy for > boys to post to. It looks like Vanilla. I have been on a very well manned > forum that got a bad spam infection, two of us spent days cleaning it up > after we blocked the attack vector. > > Forums really need a lot of care, and boys are a lot faster than humans. > > Cheers, > Dave. > > On Oct 18, 2013 11:40 PM, "Sriram Ramkrishna" <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Christian Schaller >> <cscha...@linuxrising.org> wrote: >> > Any explanation for why the forum is so unmaintained? I mean I am sure >> > it >> > would be possible to get community volunteers to help clean it up. >> > >> >> Probably a lack of active volunteers. I didn't remember it being this >> bad. It can work if we get a large enough volunteer pool who are >> willing ot do spam filtering and also a better infrastructure. >> >> It isn't worth putting the effort unless we can at least get a minimal >> of 5-6 volunteers to manage the forums. >> >> sri >> >> > >> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> The worldofgnome.org's domain was renewed a few minutes ago and it >> >> should >> >> be live again soon. >> >> >> >> cheers, >> >> >> >> >> >> 2013/10/15 Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> >> >>> >> >>> I was suggested to give [1] a try and honestly speaking it really >> >>> looks >> >>> like a good alternative to the current forums at worldofgnome.org with >> >>> a big >> >>> plus: the platform will be maintained by the GNOME Sysadmin Team and >> >>> possibly by a team of moderators. >> >>> >> >>> As a note seems the worldofgnome.org's domain wasn't renewed in time >> >>> and >> >>> the website went down, I'll try and poke Alex about that asap. >> >>> >> >>> cheers, >> >>> >> >>> [1] http://www.discourse.org/ >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> 2013/10/14 Christian Persch <c...@gnome.org> >> >>>> >> >>>> Hi; >> >>>> >> >>>> we seem to promote forums.worldofgnome.org as our (semi?)official >> >>>> forums: we link to it from the homepage of https://wiki.gnome.org/ >> >>>> under >> >>>> 'Communication', and also, more importantly, allow it to use the >> >>>> GNOME >> >>>> logo. >> >>>> >> >>>> However, those forums are overrun with spam: >> >>>> >> >>>> - *All* of the 'popular tags' (as seen on the right hand sidebar on >> >>>> the >> >>>> forums) are spam words. >> >>>> >> >>>> - Looking at the list of all 'discussions' at >> >>>> http://forums.worldofgnome.org/discussions shows that the content >> >>>> itself is all spam, as well. >> >>>> >> >>>> So those forums are of no use to our users. Therefore, I think >> >>>> we should remove the link from wiki.g.o to the forums, and we should >> >>>> rethink their authorisation to use the GNOME logo. >> >>>> >> >>>> Regards, >> >>>> Christian >> >>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>> foundation-list mailing list >> >>>> foundation-list@gnome.org >> >>>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Cheers, >> >>> >> >>> Andrea >> >>> >> >>> Debian Developer, >> >>> Fedora / EPEL packager, >> >>> GNOME Sysadmin, >> >>> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman >> >>> >> >>> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> >> Andrea >> >> >> >> Debian Developer, >> >> Fedora / EPEL packager, >> >> GNOME Sysadmin, >> >> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman >> >> >> >> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> foundation-list mailing list >> >> foundation-list@gnome.org >> >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >> >> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > foundation-list mailing list >> > foundation-list@gnome.org >> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-list mailing list >> foundation-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > -- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
