Suggestion to reduce spam on Q&A forum
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There is again some SPAM on the Q&A forum. How about 1) not allow to create more than one CP account per IP address and day? 2) not allow more than 5 different posts (i.e. questions) per user and day? Cheers Andi
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There is again some SPAM on the Q&A forum. How about 1) not allow to create more than one CP account per IP address and day? 2) not allow more than 5 different posts (i.e. questions) per user and day? Cheers Andi
(1) is a problem: all members of a company will often share a single IP address, and changing your IP address is pretty simple - at home all you have to do is turn the ADSL router off and back on again!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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(1) is a problem: all members of a company will often share a single IP address, and changing your IP address is pretty simple - at home all you have to do is turn the ADSL router off and back on again!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I aim for making the system behaving sluggish for repeated (similar) actions while "normal" behavior is not affected. E.g. one user asking *many* questions a day is questionable ;-) Creating many accounts from one site in one day is questionable too - how to detect that? Any other suggestion how achieve this? Cheers Andi
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There is again some SPAM on the Q&A forum. How about 1) not allow to create more than one CP account per IP address and day? 2) not allow more than 5 different posts (i.e. questions) per user and day? Cheers Andi
Great idea! I'd modify that this way: Disallow single user to post more than one message if its content is the same (removing leading and ending spaces).
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Great idea! I'd modify that this way: Disallow single user to post more than one message if its content is the same (removing leading and ending spaces).
You could do fancy things to get a correlation function for two messages, e.g. leave away all non-alpha-num chars and do the histogram (kind of finger-print of a message). If another message is similar (not exactly the same), you get notified that a similar message already exists... ;-) But I think to start with, restricting the number of questions per time interval (day?) is good enough to fool spammers. Thinking about it, it's a lost game: one might then move on to use "Reply" for spamming, etc. Restricting the number of comments per time interval is not feasible... :-(. Cheers Andi
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There is again some SPAM on the Q&A forum. How about 1) not allow to create more than one CP account per IP address and day? 2) not allow more than 5 different posts (i.e. questions) per user and day? Cheers Andi
My suggestion is, Question must be approved by minimum 3 or 5 Members like Approving Articles/Tips,etc. if the Question got approved then visible in QA queue else don't . :sigh: :sigh:
Born To Learn
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My suggestion is, Question must be approved by minimum 3 or 5 Members like Approving Articles/Tips,etc. if the Question got approved then visible in QA queue else don't . :sigh: :sigh:
Born To Learn
A question is a bit different to an article/tip: with an article/tip, you can ask for a certain form and level of content. With questions, what are the generally accepted criterion to pass the filter? Spam falls through, of course (but still may fill up the input queue). What about homework assignments, "Google is your friend" kind of questions (the lazy ones), etc.? The ratio of articles versus questions is probably in the range 1/10 to 1/100: who is willing to assess that amount of questions on a regular base? Cheers Andi
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My suggestion is, Question must be approved by minimum 3 or 5 Members like Approving Articles/Tips,etc. if the Question got approved then visible in QA queue else don't . :sigh: :sigh:
Born To Learn
It sounds like "approve-system". I think it's impossible to move attention to all posted messages, questions.
