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On 05/29/2014 10:29 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 2014 06:11:36 -0400 Rahul Sundaram metherid@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
FWIW, I have deleted well over a dozen accounts and hundred questions in the last few days and several new user accounts even after this mail was posted. It is likely a single persistent spammer and perhaps scripted. Some serious measures are needed at this point since some of us constantly deleting users accounts and postings just isn't scalable.
Yeah, I have blocked a number of their accounts and deleted rafts of posts too. ;(
Possible options
- Block by IP address
I looked at this a few days ago, and it didn't seem they were coming from any IP in particular. :( I can look again tho.
- Limit open id signs to just Fedora accounts
We could. How much outcry would this get from the people that use other providers though? I think there's lots of people using google/etc...
When I looked at a few of this spammers accounts they seemed to all be yahoo? I'd be perfectly fine blocking yahoo auth, but then they could just use another one.
Would need packaging and testing...
If they're all coming in through Yahoo, then disabling that would be a stopgap at least until we can find a more effective anti-spam solution.