[okfn-labs] DataHub being overrun with spam

Fri May 31 17:45:27 UTC 2013

I don't know how big the current admin team is, but I'm happy to help out.
 I won't be able to commit significant time to it, but I'm happy to delete
the stuff I run across.

Having said that, a more scalable solution would be allow all users to flag
things for admin review and/or the use of an anti-spam tool like Mollum or
it's ilk.

Tom

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> 2 things:
>
> - As an immediate but temporary step we could shut off user registrations
> - @ross: would you be up for this?
> - It is pretty easy to delete spam if you are an admin (just delete the
> datasets or delete the revision - there is a button on
> http://datahub.io/revision for this)
>
> If you are not an admin already I can make you one - anyone else who would
> like to help with this please say and I can make you an admin too.
>
> rufus
>
>
> On 31 May 2013 18:12, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [The contact link at datahub.io links to ckan.org/contact, but not sure
>> that's right, so copying OKFN Labs as well]
>>
>> There is a large amount of spam in the data set listings on the Data Hub
>> and, given the number of accounts created in the last few days, it seems to
>> be increasing.
>>
>> Here are some examples:
>>
>> http://datahub.io/user/met3own9
>> http://datahub.io/user/simaaraiza
>> http://datahub.io/user/robert_tao
>> http://datahub.io/user/met3own9
>> http://datahub.io/user/elinordelk
>> http://datahub.io/user/edwina
>> http://datahub.io/user/marryvillalpando
>> http://datahub.io/user/slimdaidaihua
>> http://datahub.io/user/danedoyle9
>> http://datahub.io/user/admin
>> http://datahub.io/user/maryinoue1
>> http://datahub.io/user/sureshshan
>>
>> http://datahub.io/dataset?q=diet&page=1
>> http://datahub.io/dataset?q=drugs&page=3
>>
>> or just search for any popular spammers' terms.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>
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