topic Re: Forum Spam in Alfresco Archive

Forum Spam

rjohnson — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 12:21:24 GMT

I subscribe to all activity on the forums and I get a news feed on my browser of new posts.Of late the feed is occasionally jammed with posts looking like the URL below.https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/installation-upgrades-configuration-integration/installation-upgrades/Whilst I cannot read the me

Re: Forum Spam

mrogers — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:21:40 GMT

Yes its very irritating and I'm fed up with having to delete these accounts. Recently most of the Alfresco folks have been at Alfresco Summit but now we are back I'm wondering how to thwart this particular spammer.

I could ask to make you a forum adminstrator so you could delete this junk!

But I'd like to stop this junk. Not sure how yet. Ideas welcome.

Re: Forum Spam

abarisone — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:55:52 GMT

Hi,
here it comes again another "user" drsfytftd cluttering the forum with rubbish…
I'm trying to participate as much as I can, but this situation could frustrate a lot of usere searching for tips especially if they're in troubles.
They're always using arab characters, is it possible to filter out comments with this charset?
At least it will work for these….

Regards,
Andrea

Re: Forum Spam

jpotts — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:23:55 GMT

One week or so ago we turned up the strictness on the spam filter. Hopefully that solves it without getting a lot of false positives.

Jeff

Re: Forum Spam

mrogers — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:18:00 GMT

Unfortunately it isn't working.

Edit: 2 more this morning. Spammers Deleted.
Edit: And another.