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Bug 391371

Summary:	Lots of spam lately on the forums
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Andrew Eisenberg <andrew.eisenberg>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Forums and Newsgroups inbox <forums-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	webmaster
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:

Description Andrew Eisenberg

2012-10-08 15:34:25 EDT

I monitor the AJDT forum http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/f/77/

In the past month or so, I've seen a dramatic increase in the amount of spam.  From almost never, to about 2/week.  Not a huge problem (yet), but still concerning.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2012-10-09 09:17:37 EDT

Indeed.  Do you have a proposed solution?  Word filters don't (usually) work for very long.

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2013-05-10 09:14:33 EDT

We seem to have solved this by moderating every new user's first post.