[p2pu-dev] spam post please delete

[Joe Corneli]

One simple step would be to forbid external URLs people not registered to
courses, but note that the current case isn't actually "link spam" -- I have
no idea what SEO service this person is trying to advertise.  It does not
seem to be "nathan.com" despite their username, since http://nathan.com is
actually a reputable person.

Anyway, there's some logic that could be used to flag up posts that are
likely to be spam in some appropriate feed:

(1) post by someone not registered to a course
(2) post by someone whose profile is less than 140 characters long in total
(3) post containing external URLs

etc.



On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:21 PM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:

> + they can create new accounts as much as they like so it will not help
> much.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:19 AM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Gotcha. -- We could delete them manually at the beginning but the usual
>> way to handle this is to have a report button and then the admins review the
>> reports and delete the user. Still the deletion process is usually manual.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>>     Zuzel
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:12 AM, B. Maura Townsend <jauncourt at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I think the point is that there is a person who has set up an account on
>>> P2PU for the purpose of leaving comments randomly in order to drum up hits
>>> to their website.
>>>
>>> It's not the comments (which are easily dealt with) it's that there is no
>>> way to block the person or remove the spammer's profile.
>>>
>>> BMT
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Rebecca Kahn <bekka.kahn at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Aren't the course organisers able to delete spam comments?
>>>> I seem to remember Charles setting this functionality up.
>>>>
>>>> B
>>>>
>>>> On 15 March 2011 11:15, Joe Corneli <holtzermann17 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> BTW is there a better place to report these?
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> From: P2PU <admin at p2pu.org>
>>>>> Date: Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:40 AM
>>>>> Subject: Comment for Course: Collaborative Lesson Planning
>>>>> To: holtzermann17 at gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> nathan.com left a comment:
>>>>>
>>>>> agree post thanks for info
>>>>>
>>>>> Read more:
>>>>> http://p2pu.org/general/collaborative-lesson-planning-0#comment-12132
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