Spam issues
Mon, 01/10/2011 - 17:05
Folks, we've had a bunch of spam posted on the forum today, which we promptly deleted. It was coming from a single user account.
To help with spam-related issues in the future, we did two things:
1) We installed a CAPTCHA module that gates registrations on qcu.be
2) Steve Warren kindly volunteered to moderate the forums in the future. Thanks, Steve!
Yeah I took care of a couple of them over the weeks.. at least I know where to buy shoes and stuff... :)
My Pleasure!! It will be a joy to give back to the project.
It seems the captha module is broken, I was unable to register a new account.
Could someone look into this?
Kristof
I can verify this.
It could be a caching issue:
http://drupal.org/node/632742
Crap. The error message I'm seeing when trying to repro this is:
CAPTCHA session reuse attack detected.
CAPTCHA validation error: unknown CAPTCHA session ID. Contact the site administrator if this problem persists.
Might be related to http://drupal.org/node/1015014?
In the meantime, I'm killing the captcha module.
Hi qcubed community,
I wasn't able to register during the last week because of the CAPTCHA.
So I'm glad to post this message, good luck with that module.
Regards, Laurent.
No captcha and another spammer on forum: caisandy1110
It seems we are getting about 20-30 registered users a day who never access the system. I am assuming that these are just bots and the usernames will be utilized later to spam the forums. I think we should run a script against the user database that looks for users who have registered X days ago and have never logged in. This will also clean up the clutter in the user table.
Thanks darq, I somehow missed this one.
Thanks to whomever caught the spammers and took care of them before I could get to it. BTW if you delete the post before getting rid of the user account, it will delete the post from recent comments in the sidebar.
Looks like the spammers are at it again. I have been cleaning up the spam post in the forums and getting rid of the offending accounts. Please let me know if I missed any.
I would surely tell them here if I catch them :) However, if you do not mind, how much of PHPDOC comments are left out? If possible, I would love to put some DOC comments in the source code to help you with it. The only thing that restricts me is that I do not know which parts are left out. I am using PhpStorm 3.0 which has a lot of good features about catching the possible properties where PHPDOC comments could be put. If you tell me which branch (like the 2.1 head or 2.1 stable) you are putting DOC comments on, I would love to start sending patches so that they could be merged to the branch and thus help you out with it. Please do tell me Steven. I would love to see the whole project being documented (and I loved that demo you showed)...so it would be looking pretty :)
Regards,
Vaibhav
I will put something together over the weekend. I'm using DocBlox to generate the documentation and it puts together a nice exceptions report that shows opportunities for commenting.