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Bug 339833

Summary:	Spam comments on top marketplace entries
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Andrey Loskutov <loskutov>
Component:	Marketplace	Assignee:	Marketplace Inbox <marketplace-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	chris.guindon
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Andrey Loskutov

2011-03-13 17:09:08 EDT

Build Identifier: 

Seems that marketplace was visited by spammer: accounts Pablo, lamhan0022,  ad.obeng, Lynda any others created spam comments on many top plugins, examples:
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/findbugs-eclipse-plugin
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/anyedit-tools
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/subclipse
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/umlet-uml-tool-fast-uml-diagrams

I think that there should be some filter installed on comments with links, a simple "stop word" filter would help a lot.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Just check the comments with links.

Comment 1 Christopher Guindon

2012-10-05 14:48:08 EDT

Changing status to FIXED. I did a cleanup of all the spam on marketplace not too long ago. 

I also added some restrictions for new users to stop them from posting external link. It seams to have stop most of the spam we where getting on marketplace.