How do we combat spam?
The account [email protected] has been spamming the comments on Diaspora HQ posts recently. This person (bot, whatever) has one post in their profile, from 4 months ago...which is also spam.
https://joindiaspora.com/people/2c1d9acbd54e42ce
The spam comments end here:
https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2736014
and start here:
https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2717848
7 days ago, and the comments have not been removed yet. This is probably because there is no (easy) way for users to report posts. I think there should be some easy and obvious way to report posts and comments that are spam.
Ruxton Tue 25 Jun 2013 4:12AM
Oh this is going to be fun ;)
Standard report functionality for statuses/posts, etc. followed up by podmin being able to "lock" or "retract/delete" a user that's been over-reported.
L3MNcakes Tue 25 Jun 2013 4:28PM
Report feature would be good, and should also block the reporting user from seeing any posts from the reported account. That way, if there happens to be a lazy podmin out there, users still have a way to circumvent the spam.
Florian Staudacher Wed 26 Jun 2013 3:58PM
... possibly something similar to youtube: "this post is hidden because it has been reported as spam repeatedly" with a configurable setting for the threshold amount of reports
L3MNcakes Wed 26 Jun 2013 5:29PM
@florianstaudacher I think that's a really great idea! =)
Jason Robinson Wed 17 Jul 2013 6:16AM
Mein Name ist Comfort i sah Ihr Profil hier und werden an Ihnen interessiert und ich werde wie uns Freunde sein und wenn Sie nichts dagegen haben, bitte schreiben Sie mir auf meine E-Mail ([email protected]) OK, werde ich warten lesen, bald von Ihnen. , so dass ich mein Bild für Sie OK Comfort schicken, My name is Comfort i saw your profile here and become interested in you and i will like us to be friends and if you don't mind, kindly write me at my email ([email protected] ) OK, i will be waiting to read from you soon. so that i will send my piCture to you OK Comfort
Seen this comment on many posts - looks like a spam bot. Anyone know who runs despora.de?
We really need a report function AND block on person profile (now only possible if person actually posts) :P diaspy and cliaspora already make spamming possible with a little scripting.
Jason Robinson Wed 17 Jul 2013 2:54PM
@lennartprelle deleted the account, thanks!
goob · Fri 21 Jun 2013 9:07AM
I agree.