[ckan-discuss] Despamming datahub

Mon Mar 18 15:28:49 GMT 2013

This is great, Ross! Thanks for this. The spam groups have been
disfiguring the DataHub for a while. Now the groups page looks much
happier:

http://datahub.io/group

>>  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.

Hopefully one of the devs will step in ...

Mark

On 18/03/2013, Ross Jones <ross at servercode.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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> 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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