[OGDev] Spam remover tool

[Tom Heath]

Sure...

Looking at http://everywhere.openguides.org/ suggests it comes in some
slightly different forms. At the OGMK we get new Categories and
Locales that go something like:

Locale/Category Rolex Replicas
Locale/Category How to Make Money

but they have no content. From http://everywhere.openguides.org/
scroll down to Open Guide to Milton Keynes, then entries "by Auto
Create at July 05, 2006 11:38 AM". I've since removed these pages from
our guide, but they _will_ reappear <sigh>

At OGLancaster (and OGLondon) it looks like you're getting similar
stuff, but with URLs embedded in the category and locale names, which
weirdly we don't get in the OGMK (a slightly different config
perhaps??).

Either way, http://everywhere.openguides.org/ is a great way of
spotting these, as it reads the RSS feed of recent changes, which has
*different* data to the HTML page of Recent Changes. I think there's
something to be said for this (though not clear about how it's working
in the underlying code), as it keeps the spam off the Home and Recent
Changes pages, whilst still allowing Admins to read the RSS feeds to
see what's really going on. I have no idea if this was an explicit
design decision, or simply the way it happened.

Hope this helps :) and good luck. Is your tool something that could be
deployed centrally to clean spam from all OGs? If yes, what do people
think of that suggestion?

Cheers,

Tom.


On 05/07/06, Clair <openguides-lancaster at nimoll.co.uk> wrote:
> Tom Heath wrote:
> > Fantastic, thanks Clair!
> >
> > Does it also handle the Category and Locale spam (e.g. Category Free Ringtones)?
> >
> > I can't work out how it gets in exactly (seems an odd/cunning method
> > that doesn't show up in many places) but damn its annoying (and
> > seemingly pointless, as there's so little content in the pages, not
> > even any spam links - weird).
>
> It doesn't - I've never seen it before.
>
> Do you have any examples? It should be simple enough to add.
>
>
> Clair
>
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