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parasew / instiki

a basic wiki clone so pretty and easy to set up, you’ll wonder if it’s really a wiki.
https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/wiki/instiki/show/HomePage
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Over-aggressive Spam Filter #18

Closed oncomouse closed 11 years ago

oncomouse commented 11 years ago

I am using Instiki to manage a class of literature students who are tracking themes in the novels of the Bronte sisters. We've found problems with Instiki's spam filter. For instance, in talking about "gambling" (a major theme in several of their novels), students' edits won't get through the spam filter because of the mention of the word "gambling" (even if it's only used once in an edit). Any way to control for this behavior?

From the logs, the edit is getting through the DNSBL, but the following line appears:

<Instiki::ValidationError: Your edit was blocked by spam filtering>

This occurs even with one mention of the word "gambling" and even from users who have made good edits in the past. It seems that the spam filtering is too aggressive.

distler commented 11 years ago

Edit the file config/spam_patterns.txt to your liking, and restart Instiki.

Problem solved.