[Web] Influx of spam in the forum

[Kojo Tero]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web-bounces+tero.kojo=digia.com at qt-project.org [mailto:web-
> bounces+tero.kojo=digia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of André Somers
> Sent: 20. maaliskuuta 2014 10:33
> To: web at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Web] Influx of spam in the forum
> 
> Kojo Tero schreef op 20-3-2014 08:13:
> > Thanks,
> >
> > I banned the spamming accounts. Someone had already cleaned the posts,
> thanks for that.
> >
> > Yes, we need more moderators, any potential names? I'm still too green on
> the forums to identify who would be a good moderator.
> >
> > Tero
> 
> I assume that this is the current list of moderators:
> http://qt-project.org/groups/site_moderators/members/

Actually no, it's just a group. Has nothing to do with the rights. 

> I would at least like to invite some of the most active current members:
> SGaist: http://qt-project.org/member/39728
> qxoz: http://qt-project.org/member/13653

Yes, good names. Added rights.

> On the spamming: I would really appreciate a system where users under a
> certain status level:
> * can not set a URL as/in their signature
> * will have postings with URLs in them to be automatically marked for
> moderation and put in some queue with those, with the exception of links to
> a small number of white-listed sites (Qt-project itself, stack overflow and qt
> forum come to mind).
> 
> I simply can no longer keep up with all forum posts anymore. I used to read
> almost everything, but now I only occasionally have time to read more than
> just a few postings here and there. Having stuff to moderate in some
> seperate queue would be beneficial. It should be easy and fast for a
> moderator to dismiss postings in the queue as not spam though.

Agree with that. These features would be needed. The current system doesn't seem to be capable of that.

Tero

> In theory the "report" link should make it possible for the community to
> contribute here, but that does not seem to work well enough.
>
> André
> 
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: web-bounces+tero.kojo=digia.com at qt-project.org
> > [mailto:web-bounces+tero.kojo=digia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of
> > Sze Howe Koh
> > Sent: 20. maaliskuuta 2014 2:29
> > To: web at qt-project.org
> > Subject: [Web] Influx of spam in the forum
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Starting 12 hours ago there has been a large influx of spam posts in the
> forum.
> >
> > First post: http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/39850/
> > Latest post: http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/39938/
> >
> > We're currently lacking moderators. Could we appoint more? In the
> meantime, could a moderator please get rid of the offending posts and
> accounts?
> >
> > The posts were all made from brand new accounts. I might have missed
> some, but they are:
> >
> > http://qt-project.org/member/155930
> > http://qt-project.org/member/155938
> > http://qt-project.org/member/155952
> > http://qt-project.org/member/155971
> > http://qt-project.org/member/155983
> > http://qt-project.org/member/155992
> > http://qt-project.org/member/155997
> > http://qt-project.org/member/156007
> > http://qt-project.org/member/156010
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sze-Howe
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