Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.There is a large amount of Profile Spam in d.o. and the related sites. While several thousand profiles have been cleaned up recently, custom reporting would make it easier and faster to identify questionable profiles.
Dealing with profile spam quickly may discourage some repeat offenders. Dealing with it in bulk would seem to be more efficient than handling a just few at a time.
Attached is a mock-up of possible report. Really, there is flexibility in format. This report would be used by a relatively small number of people (infrastructure, webmasters, and spam fighting deputies). The mock-up shows a 'block' checkbox - this is not critical to the report, but might be a productivity improvement.
Selection should be allowed by profile creation date range. Selection based on contents of a few of the fields would also be useful - several people will share thoughts on this. Let me know if I can clarify, help test, etc.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| ReportMockupDOOnly.pdf | 54.27 KB | dougsap |
Comments
Comment #1
gregglesSeems like a great idea to me. Thanks for posting!
Comment #2
gregglesSorry, one more thought: if this turns out to be complicated to build then it should probably be a separate module that is not part of drupalorg customizations so that it can be easily deployed/managed on other sites.
Comment #3
dougsap commentedI believe that this should be a relatively straight forward Views report. Of course, I have not really seen the underlying data structures so I am making some assumptions. However, there is flexibility for what is included and how it is displayed.
A similar issue has been created in project/groupsdrupalorg for the g.d.o. report #1515276: Report for the review and clean-up of g.d.o. profiles and there is potentially a bit of leverage between at least these two.
Thanks!
Comment #4
killes@www.drop.org commentedThis was actually implemeted and is available to webmasters at https://drupal.org/admin/user/user/homepages