On Thu, 29 May 2014 06:11:36 -0400 Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > FWIW, I have deleted well over a dozen accounts and hundred > questions in the last few days and several new user accounts even > after this mail was posted. It is likely a single persistent spammer > and perhaps scripted. Some serious measures are needed at this point > since some of us constantly deleting users accounts and postings just > isn't scalable. Yeah, I have blocked a number of their accounts and deleted rafts of posts too. ;( > Possible options > > * Block by IP address I looked at this a few days ago, and it didn't seem they were coming from any IP in particular. :( I can look again tho. > * Limit open id signs to just Fedora accounts We could. How much outcry would this get from the people that use other providers though? I think there's lots of people using google/etc... When I looked at a few of this spammers accounts they seemed to all be yahoo? I'd be perfectly fine blocking yahoo auth, but then they could just use another one. > * https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stopforumspam/ > * https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/anti-spam/ Would need packaging and testing... kevin
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