[UCIMC-Tech] Spam Mass Deletion Disabled

[Chris Ritzo]

Mike,

I just made an adjustment to the comment form, enabling text analysis for
spam protection rather than the captcha. One of the issues that's certainly
causing some spam is that the service we're using (http://www.mollom.com)
is free up to a certain number of legit posts and spam blocks. The IMC site
is regularly going over that limit, so I imagine what's happening is that
we hit the limit and then spam gets through. To improve this, the IMC can
consider paying for the Mollom Plus service, which is 30 EUR/month for up
to 1000 legit posts per day and up to 1000 correct captchas per day. It
also offers better performance.

Anyone else on the tech list have ideas about better spam blocking on a
Drupal site?

Beyond that, monitoring spam posts is just a fact of life of sites like
ours where open & anonymous posts are allowed. Spam monitoring in general
is a full time job that people actually get paid to do- part of a larger
conversation I'm trying to open in our circles about the actual costs of
tech infrastructure and support which needs to be addressed. A volunteer
working group or volunteer web editors just don't have the capacity or
interest in becoming spam monitors. I think this every time I log into one
of our Mailman lists to clean out spam.

Anyway, I'll bring this up at our next board meeting, but if you could let
me know if the above change has an effect on spam comments that would be
awesome.

Chris


On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:

> The website was back up and mass delete is working again this morning, so
> I cleaned up 500+ pieces of spam that arrived last night
>
> Makes me wonder...Is there anyway that a "duplicate post" or other such
> dialogue that interrupted the posting process could be inserted if the
> title is the same to prevent such abuse? If N=>2, it would throw a wrench
> in the automated process used (posts were coming in at around 10/minute at
> its height) since I doubt a human was doing it that rapidly, without being
> too obtrusive to legitimate posting?
>
> Anyway, something like that is what I want for Xmas...or maybe someone
> else that pays enough attention to the website to help clean up the crap
> from time to time.
> Mike
>
>
> On 12/9/2011 12:22 AM, Mike Lehman wrote:
>
>> The spammers are busy tonight. I deleted a hundred or so earlier with the
>> mass delete option box checked.
>>
>> Came back and there's lots more. This time, I get an error messages when
>> trying to do the same thing:
>> "An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site
>> administrator."
>>
>> Then the server crashed -- or something. Connection is timing out.
>> Probably sack time, so if anyone gets the chance to clean things up once
>> it's working, indulge yourself.
>> Mike
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