Re: [pygame] Spam on Tutorials page

[Jatniel Prinsloo <dragon.nix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Or blacklist known spam that has nothing to do with pythons
programming or games?
BTW it's very difficult to sift through all the spam, maybe a mark as
spam option?
Just my 1,50 cents.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Kris Schnee <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2010.8.5 2:29 PM, James Paige wrote:
>>
>> I think I have mentioned this before, but I will bring it up again.
>>
>> If you auto-block posts that contain a url, you block 99.?% of spam.
>>
>> This doesn't interfere too badly with normal comments. Only a minor
>> inconveneince for legit users, really. Even anonymous legit users!
>>
>> There could be a whitelist of users who are allowed to post urls, or you
>> could send comments that contain urls to a queue for moderation fi you
>> want to get fancy.
>
> The project pages have some form you can fill in to include a URL, right?
> Seems like a way to let people post those (if they're registered users)
> while banning them from the body of a post. Using a form field as the only
> way to include a URL might make life harder for people trying to increase
> our Python size. I've seen spammers disguise a URL to be something like "I
> got great dealz from s p a m d ot r u", so no system's going to be perfect.
>



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