Posted by bdragon on September 20, 2007 at 12:08am
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| Project: | Drupal.org webmasters |
| Component: | Spam |
| Category: | task |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
I just noticed something disturbing when looking through the issue queue today.
Look very carefully at the last post on http://drupal.org/node/49667. Now compare it to the other posts in that issue.
Someone was or is using what looks to me like a markov generator or something similar to spam the issue queue.
This is very disturbing....
Is there any way to detect this sort of thing? This is some very subtle spam... :(
Comments
#1
And then I notice that it is an exact copy of another post in the thread.
*sigh*
#2
I was going to clean it up but something else is odd. If you visit http://drupal.org/user/124071 and then click track there is nothing in their tracker. Since it is a follow up I do not have the approriate permissions to clean it up but the link is definitly spam.
#3
the user is blocked, but someone will have to run a database query to catch all the issues spammed.
You can't remove issue spam except through the database.
#4
Changing title
#5
#6
Since the tracker doesn't work to find this sort of thing, http://drupal.org/project/issues?participated=124071
#7
I don't think this merits much action, we add "nofollow" to the links and no human user is going to look at these old issues.
#8
You can't remove issue spam except through the database.
FYI: this will be fixed via http://drupal.org/node/18920 which is high on the project* roadmap...
#9
IFAC in, spam out.
Michelle
#10
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.