[ckan-discuss] Spam groups on the Data Hub

Wed Dec 7 17:06:22 GMT 2011

On 7 Dec 2011, at 14:30, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> Alternative approach (which I generally do) is to go into history and
> delete all the revisions -- these can then get purged. (To delete
> revision: click through to revision page and hit delete).

I tried this with another spam group:
http://thedatahub.org/group/ddingrintr

I clicked through to the only revision and deleted it. It now shows as deleted, as expected.

But the group still is there… So deleting all revisions doesn't seem to delete the group.

Best,
Richard

> 
> Rufus
> 
> On 7 December 2011 13:35, Richard Cyganiak <richard at cyganiak.de> wrote:
>> On 7 Dec 2011, at 12:37, David Read wrote:
>>>> http://thedatahub.org/group/boxing
>>>> http://thedatahub.org/group/cool-gadget
>>> 
>>> These need to be deleted by the author or a sysadmin. Your old account
>>> is sysadmin, so I've also added your new one.
>> 
>> Ah, I forgot about the old account. Thanks!
>> 
>>> I've deleted the
>>> cool-gadget. Can you test it out by deleting boxing?
>>> 
>>> As with packages, you edit it and change the state to 'deleted'.
>> 
>> Hm, it's a bit strange. I can now edit the group and see the “state” dropdown, but changing it to “deleted” and saving seems to have no effect. Changes to other fields are saved, but this one seems to be ignored.
>> 
>> I tried fiddling with the authorization fields, and gave myself admin rights for this dataset, but still no effect when setting state to deleted.
>> 
>> Any idea what's going on?
>> 
>> Richard
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