[ckan-discuss] Despamming datahub

Tue Mar 19 09:22:38 GMT 2013

Excellent work, Ross! I agree with Mark.

Thank you very much.

Velichka Dimitrova
Open Economics Project Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
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On 18 March 2013 15:28, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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