[ckan-dev] DataHub being overrun with spam

Fri May 31 17:25:27 UTC 2013

Hi Tom,

2 things:

- As an immediate but temporary step we could shut off user registrations -
@ross: would you be up for this?
- It is pretty easy to delete spam if you are an admin (just delete the
datasets or delete the revision - there is a button on
http://datahub.io/revision for this)

If you are not an admin already I can make you one - anyone else who would
like to help with this please say and I can make you an admin too.

rufus

On 31 May 2013 18:12, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> [The contact link at datahub.io links to ckan.org/contact, but not sure
> that's right, so copying OKFN Labs as well]
>
> There is a large amount of spam in the data set listings on the Data Hub
> and, given the number of accounts created in the last few days, it seems to
> be increasing.
>
> Here are some examples:
>
> http://datahub.io/user/met3own9
> http://datahub.io/user/simaaraiza
> http://datahub.io/user/robert_tao
> http://datahub.io/user/met3own9
> http://datahub.io/user/elinordelk
> http://datahub.io/user/edwina
> http://datahub.io/user/marryvillalpando
> http://datahub.io/user/slimdaidaihua
> http://datahub.io/user/danedoyle9
> http://datahub.io/user/admin
> http://datahub.io/user/maryinoue1
> http://datahub.io/user/sureshshan
>
> http://datahub.io/dataset?q=diet&page=1
> http://datahub.io/dataset?q=drugs&page=3
>
> or just search for any popular spammers' terms.
>
> Tom
>
>

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