Closed (fixed)
Project:
Drupal.org site moderators
Component:
Spam
Priority:
Major
Category:
Task
Assigned:
Reporter:
Created:
15 Sep 2011 at 07:30 UTC
Updated:
1 Oct 2011 at 15:41 UTC
Hi,
I'm sorry if this is old news but today there has been alot of spam Posted by Anonymous on September 15, 2011 at 7:02am
http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_multisitesearch/read%20more%20link%2...
e.g.
https://association.drupal.org/node/9079
https://association.drupal.org/node/9064
They seem to be all from the same S.O.B.
http://spyshield.in/...
How can people help stop this?
Comments
Comment #1
laura s commentedThese are question nodes.
I was able to delete the two listed, but do not have admin permissions to deal with them in bulk. They are posted by anonymous user(s), so there's no real way to block them. (We need Mollom or Spam module or something.)
We can continue searching for them, but it would be best if an a.d.o admin could deal with them in bulk.
Comment #2
laura s commentedIf the search http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_multisitesearch/read%20more%20link%2... is indeed a true indicator, we have hundreds of thousands of spam nodes to address.
I'm marking this as a "major" spam issue.
Comment #3
killes@www.drop.org commentedSome dolt had allowed creation of forum posts for anon users. No idea why forum module is even enabled there...
I've taken away that permission.
Comment #4
killes@www.drop.org commented2221 is a more likely number of spam nodes.
I've started to delete those, but since the DA has actually paid staff, I am leaving the rest for them. :p
Comment #5
killes@www.drop.org commentedthe oldest spam that I found was from 6 days ago.
Comment #6
drummNot sure if there is a more-official announcement of the forum, but https://association.drupal.org/node/1389#comment-1259 is something. I wasn't involved with it.
Comment #7
killes@www.drop.org commentedI have unpublished the spam nodes that I hadn't deleted earlier. Anonymous users may no longer post to the forum.
Comment #8
drummMollom was on the site, but not actually enabled for that form. I added it, and am keeping the permissions as-is, no anonymous posting. And I upgraded mollom from 1.15 to 1.16. I deleted all the spam posts and reported to Mollom.