By robertdouglass on

I'm sure that anybody running a Drupal website occasionally gets tempted to mention Drupal and show up in the Drupal talk block. Mostly this has worked ok. Isn't surprising, though, that people are getting bright ideas and mentioning Drupal in every post they put on their for-profit money making schemes. The interesting quetsion: how long can someone abuse Drupal Talk before they get blacklisted?

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bertboerland’s picture

bertboerland commented

Whenever I mention drupal on my site, and it gets listed on the top10 drupal block, I'll get an additional 100 reads from drupal.org of that posting.

So spammers are bound to find this or drupal users who'll do anything for a couple of hits, will misuese it as well. Not to sure on how to solve it. Maybe by a rating system? Users who followed the post can do a thumb up/down (++/+/0/-/--) or something?

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robertdouglass’s picture

robertdouglass commented

That would solve the problem nicely and I'd look forward to voting on the good, the bad and the ugly. This would also eventually clear Drupal Talk of all the people who install Drupal to evaluate it and write "I'm testing Drupal" as the entire text of their first blog.

- Robert Douglass

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dries’s picture

dries commented

I think we should extend the aggregator module so that one can remove (or edit) individual news items.

boris mann’s picture

boris mann commented

Tools like Feedster and PubSub are great for tracking mentions of your website. Being able to edit feed items means you wouldn't have to worry about off-topic or irrelevant posts.

dries’s picture

dries commented

I filed a feature request so we won't forget about it.