Re: [pygame] how to remove spam comments in pygame wiki

[Nirav Patel <olpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fair enough.  It just makes pygame look bad/abandoned when spam sits
around in the documentation for weeks/months on end.

How about the middle ground of automatic filtering using Akismet.
There is a Python module [1] and apparently someone wrote a Django
plugin [2].  I've been using it in my Wordpress blog with no false
positives and less than 1% false negatives for the last year.

[1]: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#akismet
[2]: http://sciyoshi.com/blog/2008/aug/27/using-akismet-djangos-new-comments-framework/

Nirav

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:24 PM, René Dudfield<renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Nirav Patel <olpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> One solution to comment spam is to just use recaptcha on anonymous
>> comments.  It'll at least remove bot spam and make it more annoying
>> for repeat human spammers.
>>
>> Nirav
>
> I think comments have more value than allowing some spam in some times.  In
> this case removing barriers for people to comment (like captcha, required
> login etc) gives us more comments.  Each barrier reduces the number of valid
> comments.
>
> Then every now and then the spam comments can easily be removed.  I think
> this will be the 3rd spam cleanup in 5 years, so it's not much of an issue.
> The spam comments don't even have clickable links in them, so it doesn't
> matter so much at all.
>
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> cheers,
>