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Bug 339833 - Spam comments on top marketplace entries
Summary: Spam comments on top marketplace entries
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Marketplace (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Marketplace Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-03-13 17:09 EDT by Andrey Loskutov CLA
Modified: 2012-10-05 14:48 EDT (History)
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Description Andrey Loskutov CLA 2011-03-13 17:09:08 EDT 
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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 CLA 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.