[ckan-discuss] Despamming datahub

[Ross Jones]

No problem, I wrote some code to do it.  It isn't a perfect solution, a lot
of users creating these groups need to be deleted, and I am nervous about
doing that without better heuristics than their choice of email provider.

I think it might be better to force users through either an email
verification process, or to provisionally put their first group/dataset
creation into a pending state for moderation.  I realise this would reduce
how open the site is, but I can't see another viable way to reduce all the
spam.

Ross



On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Velichka Dimitrova <
velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:

> Excellent work, Ross! I agree with Mark.
>
> Thank you very much.
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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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