Ticket #1278 (closed defect: fixed)
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: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 spam by "amog2011":
http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/ticket/1105#comment:12
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.

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