Re: Can a bugzilla issue be locked because of spam?

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On 1/9/20 05:28, Andy Mender wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 14:22, Qiyu Yan <yanqiyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@xxxxxxxxx> 于2020年8月31日周一 下午7:54写道:
>>> I'm getting *pretty annoyed* with a similar (but way worse) issue as
>> well:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810049
>>>
>>> It's worse because there are way more spam comments and they get
>>> amplified by the mails to the package-review lists as well ...
>>
>> Thanks to god they didn't spam to mailing list directly.
>>
>>> I was told to just mark comments as spam and by "magic" those accounts
>>> will get banned.
>>> Thing is, new accounts get created and just keep on posting spam.
>>
>> If tons of spam accounts are getting created continuously, then I think
>> locking
>> bugs won't help. IMHO the only way that will help is ask RedHat to set
>> a more strict
>> anti-spam procedure when creating new accounts.
>>
> 
> Pretty much this. I remember seeing similar spam 1-2 months ago and was a
> little amused.
> Back then it DID hit the packaging mailing list as well, unfortunately.
> 
> We probably need one of those "I am human" captchas as part of the
> registration process.
> Not sure what is Red Hat's policy on this?

AFAIAA There isn't a policy.

It's a barrier to entry and it would stop some people from using the
site, so it requires some analyses of the impact on participation by the
communities using RHBZ.

Cheers, Jeff.
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