Ticket #1278 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 10 months ago

Spam in Trac tickets and wiki

Reported by: stiell Owned by: TAsn
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: SHR trac admin Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description

I have found several tickets and one wiki page containing spam. The tickets are:
1150 1151 1152 1153 1154 1155 1156 1157 1158 1192 1220 1255 1276 1277
The wiki page is "Patio Heater - To warm up your house".

They contain spam URLs, stealing search engine ranking (e.g. PageRank) from this site.

Closing or blanking (as has been done with some of the spam) is not adequate, as the links stay in the page/ticket history and will still be followed by e.g. search engines. They should instead be deleted. This can probably be done with TracAdmin. In addition, maybe a spam filter should be implemented:  http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter

Change History

comment:1 Changed 2 years ago by Heinervdm

I've deleted the wiki page, but i can't delete tickets, that must do someone else.

comment:2 Changed 2 years ago by Quix0r

1297 is also spam. It still links to the spammer's websites.

comment:3 Changed 2 years ago by stiell

comment:4 Changed 22 months ago by Quix0r

Also the blog is flooded with spam:  http://blog.shr-project.org, please clean it up. If you need more hands, I can provide you my service as a spam-hunter (see openmoko wiki).

comment:5 Changed 15 months ago by elisa42

I asked in #bearstech if the guys would install the spamfilter plugin for trac. they opened a ticket in their own trac about that.

comment:6 Changed 15 months ago by elisa42

trac-spamfilter plugin has been installed and captcha is enabled. unfortunatily it looks like (some) spam bots can solve them. Lets see how much spam arrives in the future.

comment:7 Changed 15 months ago by elisa42

now using reCaptcha

comment:8 Changed 12 months ago by iwdy23

comment:9 Changed 10 months ago by slyon

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

now that we'hve closed the trac registration most of the spam is gone. so i'm closing this one.

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