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Investigate solutions to growing spam problem on the site #629

Open kalpaitch opened 9 years ago

kalpaitch commented 9 years ago

There appears to be a growing problem with spam on the site, and at the rate of growth we're experiencing we need to handle this in a more automated way.

Step 1) Implement honeypot within the drupal upgrade, and any other easy and non user impacting wins.

Step 2) Investigate other methods for more advanced spam blocking - https://groups.drupal.org/node/77093 - (I'm 99.9% against using Captchas)

rfay commented 9 years ago

Moderate node posts by new users: https://github.com/warmshowers/Warmshowers.org/issues/654

rfay commented 9 years ago

My opinion is that the vast majority of people who can actually create an account on that huge form are real users. And, of course, there's a validation step required, which generally requires a real user. Unfortunately, complex posting spam is often done by paid users in internet cafes all over the world, so manual moderation of new users will always be required. But it may be that we can figure out ways to minimize.

rfay commented 9 years ago

Honeypot module is deployed but not configured or enabled in D7 upgrade.