Or blacklist known spam that has nothing to do with pythons programming or games? BTW it's very difficult to sift through all the spam, maybe a mark as spam option? Just my 1,50 cents.
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Kris Schnee <ksch...@xepher.net> wrote: > On 2010.8.5 2:29 PM, James Paige wrote: >> >> I think I have mentioned this before, but I will bring it up again. >> >> If you auto-block posts that contain a url, you block 99.?% of spam. >> >> This doesn't interfere too badly with normal comments. Only a minor >> inconveneince for legit users, really. Even anonymous legit users! >> >> There could be a whitelist of users who are allowed to post urls, or you >> could send comments that contain urls to a queue for moderation fi you >> want to get fancy. > > The project pages have some form you can fill in to include a URL, right? > Seems like a way to let people post those (if they're registered users) > while banning them from the body of a post. Using a form field as the only > way to include a URL might make life harder for people trying to increase > our Python size. I've seen spammers disguise a URL to be something like "I > got great dealz from s p a m d ot r u", so no system's going to be perfect. > -- The flame personified---