[ckan-discuss] CKAN spam

[David Read]

On 2 August 2011 12:33, Pablo Mendes <pablomendes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure, I'd love to help.
> What about users? Is there any mechanism for keeping spammers away?

No, but we've started a dev discussion about what to implement. Join
the conversation at: http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1257

David

> Cheers,
> Pablo
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Pablo (and Bill),
>>
>> Would you be interested in becoming sysadmins on theDataHhub (formerly
>> known as ckan.net!)? Being a sysadmin means, among other things, that
>> you can mark revisions and packages for deletion and then "purge" them
>> from the trash (at ckan-admin/trash).
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> On 2 August 2011 10:50, Pablo Mendes <pablomendes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I've had the itch to flag packages and authors as spam/spammers myself.
>> > Any plans to incorporate such features?
>> > Cheers,
>> > Pablo
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Bill,
>> >>
>> >> Thanks very much. Cc'ing CKAN-discuss.
>> >>
>> >> @Team, In history I can only compare versions, I don't appear to
>> >> actually be able to roll back with my level of access, otherwise I
>> >> would do this myself.
>> >>
>> >> L
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Bill Roberts <bill at swirrl.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi Lucy
>> >> > Not sure who is responsible for maintaining CKAN, so perhaps you
>> >> > could
>> >> > forward this to the right person for me.
>> >> > I noticed a couple of recent spam packages have been added to
>> >> > ckan.net
>> >> > and
>> >> > appear at the top of the front page (as the newest entries). I don't
>> >> > seem to
>> >> > have the rights to delete them myself but perhaps someone could do
>> >> > some
>> >> > tidying up.
>> >> > Best regards
>> >> > Bill
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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