Problem/Motivation
I've noticed that there are quite a few of spam lessons and ladders.

Proposed Solution
There should be an option, possibly part as a status that all users can set, so that others become aware that it's spam. There is a significant amount on spam on ladders, and they are one of the first ladders to show up.

Some example lessons:
http://drupalladder.org/lesson/b515d5b2-5786-13a4-5592-81a72aa66996
http://drupalladder.org/lesson/1d340def-7d79-0664-2592-6fb5f8f2e6da

Some example ladders:
http://drupalladder.org/ladder/f75680dc-036c-3964-0129-d139c3e254cc
http://drupalladder.org/ladder/442cd1b1-ca4b-ef94-2188-04d244a86cff

Comments

BrockBoland’s picture

BrockBoland CreditAttribution: BrockBoland commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Thanks for the heads-up. I had been cleaning these out every week or two last year, but things had been fine for a long (after we enabled Mollom or something, I can't remember now). I just cancelled 7 spam accounts and deleted all their account. Not bad for six months or so.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Anonymous’s picture

(not verified) CreditAttribution: commented
Issue summary: View changes

Change in format

amool’s picture

amool CreditAttribution: amool commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Closed (fixed) » Needs work

@BrockBoland

Its been quite some time since you cleaned it up. Some more ladders & lessons to be deleted:

Ladders:
http://drupalladder.org/ladder/ab2d2c17-37e5-4aff-90ce-7c206a4da56d
http://drupalladder.org/ladder/ab2d2c17-37e5-4aff-90ce-7c206a4da56d
http://drupalladder.org/ladder/01f304b7-8f58-48f2-a133-c1e5538d26d6
http://drupalladder.org/ladder/b138864f-8eae-4b83-868e-a1992d42c6c2
http://drupalladder.org/ladder/64d1ece9-eac6-4d1b-a76d-f93f51a367eb
http://drupalladder.org/ladder/d72269c6-d5a7-4048-93ed-eefc32c2fdfe
http://drupalladder.org/ladder/d72269c6-d5a7-4048-93ed-eefc32c2fdfe

Lessons:
http://drupalladder.org/lesson/988a19f2-9adf-4696-9090-026e0132b291
http://drupalladder.org/lesson/d6be89a4-ebba-4874-b299-1bd17c954f53

cs_shadow’s picture

cs_shadow CreditAttribution: cs_shadow commented
Priority: Normal » Major

There are a bunch of ladders which are spam and since there are about 7500 of these spam ladders I'm also raising the priority, Since, most of these posts are by username 'spormaster2029' so I'm guessing it should be relatively easy to fix.

YesCT’s picture

YesCT CreditAttribution: YesCT commented

can my account be given the role needed to delete spam please?

kay_v’s picture

kay_v CreditAttribution: kay_v as a volunteer commented
Title: Spam Lessons and Ladders » Manually cleaned up spam Lessons and Ladders; need better automated solution

Brief update on spam cleanup

Individual volunteers have cleaned out most spam. Overly tight account creation/approval policies have helped keep the site free of spam since, but creation of quality content has predictably dropped off.

@yesct, you have permissions on the site to manage users, content, etc., as do 20 or so folks.

Improvements to spam control

Drupal.org has what looks like a good crowdsourcing approach to confirming trusted community members: confirmed members have a button so they can confirm other members. See the following 2 links:
- https://www.drupal.org/node/2460171
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupalorg/tree/drupalorg/drupalorg.module?id=...
@yesct, I see you were a part of that effort. Do you think it's a reasonable thing for the Drupal Ladder, as well?

Coordinating

Let's coordinate our spam control efforts as well as improving the ways we encourage contribution of quality content. More information on the DrupalLadder group.