[OGDev] Spam remover tool

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:37:52AM +0100, Tom Heath wrote:

> 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?

I haven't looked at Clair's tool yet, but any long-term solution needs
to be based on preventing the spam from going live to start with (via
moderation, rule-based spam filtering etc).

I've mentioned this a couple of times before but noone's taken me up
on it: I use a hack on Oxford to implement moderation. Regular
contributors know the moderation URL so they will be able to approve
their stuff, but I get emailed and try to process all genuine
contributions quickly.

It *is* a hack and certainly not the recommended way to implement
moderation - that comes later with Wiki::Toolkit's proper moderation
support, when we get round to it :)

In the mean time, if you're comfortable with running a hack and possibly
cleaning up your database manually later, you can grab it from:

http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/computing/code/openguides/moderation.patch
(patch against OpenGuides.pm - please change the email address!)

http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/computing/code/openguides/moderate.cgi
moderation CGI interface.

Dominic.

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