Support #3549
closedSpam on CBOX.org
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Description
Been getting an enormous amount of spam on CommonsInABox.org today. Just reporting this and wondering the cause. I have marked a lot of it as spam. Seems to be coming from different places.
Updated by scott voth almost 10 years ago
Also, response time is very slow when I mark items as spam. Date 10/12/2014 time 8:45 AM
Updated by Boone Gorges almost 10 years ago
Scott, can you please provide more details on the nature of the spam? Comment spam? Spam users? Spam activity?
Updated by scott voth almost 10 years ago
The spam seems to be from comments on documentation and posts, mostly. I tried to update Akismet, but don't have the rights I guess.
I noticed a lot on this - http://commonsinabox.org/archives/889 and this - http://commonsinabox.org/archives/3271
The torrent of spam seems to have subsided - but over the weekend there was over 100 ...
Updated by Boone Gorges almost 10 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
- Target version set to Not tracked
Thanks for the clarification, Scott. I'm guessing this was a hiccup in the Akismet service (I also saw more spam than usual sneak through the filter on a couple other blogs). Going to close this ticket as there's not much we can do about Akismet outages, but if more problems arise, please let me know. Thanks.