[ckan-discuss] Flagging SPAM

[David Read]

On 2 September 2011 11:53, Pablo Mendes <pablomendes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> It seems that the spammers are savvy enough to register one user per spam
> package.
> Examples:
> http://thedatahub.org/user/aloshi
> http://thedatahub.org/user/stevearlen
> I would like to be able to flag a package along with its creator as
> spam+spammer.
> Are there any plans to introduce such a feature?

Pablo,

The tagging of packages is not ideal and we have no plans to add this
to Users. To be honest, although we need to clean up spam users, we
are much more interested in cleaning up spam packages.

I've tried to start a discussion about ways to fight spam, starting
with this ticket:
http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1257
It would be great to get some suggestions about how to move this
forward, for example whether to focus efforts on an admin tool,
crowd-sourcing or automatic tools.

David

> Cheers,
> Pablo
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