[ckan-discuss] Despamming datahub

[Ross Jones]

Hi Sara,

It shouldn't be an issue on 1.x, it depends how open you want it to be, but
as it is probably best to be working with 2.0 now...

It should certainly be less of an issue on 2.0, unless you leave it open to
anybody to create a group.  I guess ideally for open systems it should be
possible to have the group go into a pending state for verification before
it was created.  I haven't checked whether this is the case or not yet.
 Even if not in core it should be possible to do this in an extension.

Ross





On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Sara Farmer <sara.farmer at btinternet.com>wrote:

>  Phew...  Does that mean that spammers using fake groups won't be an
> issue in 2.0?
>
> I'm asking because I just set up my own CKAN node and am clunking my way
> through getting it working for me... I locked it down because I saw all the
> spam on the datahub, and wasn't quite sure what the best way to avoid the
> same fate was (and as the receipient of more than one "we've closed your
> site because of spammers" message from providers in the past, this scares
> me a little more than most).
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Sj.
>
>
> On 3/18/2013 10:04 AM, Ross Jones wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  I've started de-spamming the datahub, there were *lots* of fake groups
> created, and as there are some fairly easy heuristics in identifying them
> (thanks hotmail) I've written a script that'll mark them all as deleted.
>
>  I'm only soft-deleting them (just in case) and unfortunately users don't
> have that option so I've erred on the side of caution and temporarily left
> them (until I can come up with a safer set of rules).
>
>  Would it be possible for someone to turn off group-creation until the
> datahub gets migrated to 2.0?  I guess any urgently needed groups could
> approach the list of ask in the meantime.
>
>  Ross
>
>
>
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