By gdtechindia on

I have noticed a big issue on three Drupal websites we are managing.

Some people sign up as users and submit content which is Spam.

I have set up the permissions as follows.

For Authenticated User

create stories Not Allowed
Edit Own Stories Not Allowed

With these both not allowed, they are still able to create new stories.

In addition, there is lot of comment spam on some of websites as well. Can someone suggest something to help us.

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DL’s picture

DL commented

try using akismet module for battling comments spams. You can also use captcha module

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gdtechindia commented

thanks for help about comment spam.

Anyone having any ideas about The Content Permissions issue ?

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p6’s picture

p6 commented

Possibly a node permissions screw-up
Rebuild node permissions and see if that helps (Administer- > Post Settings ->Rebuild Node Permissions )

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gdtechindia commented

Thanks for your help, but am not sure where this Post Settings Menu is ?

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coofercat commented

Alternatively, the spam.module may be of use too. It's a bayesian filter, which once trained is pretty effective. Unlike Akismet, it doesn't need any external service (and it's free to use, even if you're commercial).

I used to use spam.module on my blog, and it stood up to several weeks of very concerted spam attacks. I'd say it probably caught 99% of spam, and marked a handful of non-spam comments incorrectly. So far, Akismet's blocked a handful of spams, but has made no false positives. It's missed some broken messages (which I assume are from broken 'bots), but it's doing pretty well.

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derekwebb1 commented

Out of curiosity, are you using organic groups? Sometimes it makes things go a wee bit screwy permissions wise...

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