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[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Maciej,

Am 13.02.2013 um 14:06 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
> Our OSQA-powered site, http://www.opencsw.org/community/ is getting spammed and is not getting any user input. OSQA itself doesn't have good facilities for fighting spam. For example, to get rid of harmful links from spam profiles, we need to run SQL queries by hand (thanks go to Dago for doing it recently).
> 
> 2013/2/2 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>
> We have spam from time to time and I usually just delete it. It may probably
> be best to just enable moderation on new accounts if possible.
>  
> People / users are not registering there and not asking questions via OSQA. We have roughly these choices:
> 
> 1. Close /community/ and copy existing content into a static page (on wordpress) or wiki, or some other place (the manual?). Create a HTTP redirect from /community/.*
> 2. Try harder: Upgrade OSQA to the newest version (trunk from upstream svn) and start promoting the site so maybe people will start registering.
> 3. (credit goes to Trygve) Use the "opencsw" tag in serverfault.com. Try to create a link to a form with the tag prefilled. Then subscribe to unanswered questions with the tag. An example: http://serverfault.com/unanswered/tagged/solaris - also via RSS: http://serverfault.com/feeds/tag/solaris

4. Ban yahoo and hotmail users as they match 100% of the spam producers.


Best regards

  -- Dago

> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Maciej
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