[OGDev] Support for spam detection

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:20:44PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
> Hello.  Following a discussion on #openguides, I've added hooks for
> spam detection.
> 
> The way it works is that you specify the name of a local module in
> your wiki.conf, and OpenGuides will check all edits against this
> module before agreeing to commit them.  The module should provide a
> method called "looks_like_spam", which will be passed the content and
> metadata of the edit, and should return true (it's spam) or false
> (it's not).
> 
> An example:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> package OpenGuides::Local::KakeSpamDetector;          
> use strict; 
> 
> sub looks_like_spam {     
>     my ( $class, %args ) = @_; 
>     if ( $args{content} =~ /kitten/i ) { 
>         return 1;    
>     } 
> }
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Obviously you'll want a more serious check in there :)  The neat thing
> about doing it like this is that your spam detector module can do
> _anything_ you like, including, for example, logging.
> 
> Comments?

Awesome. Obviously most user will be wanting to use one or more standard
spam plugin modules we provide, but this is an excellent start.

Dominic.

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