The spam is real.
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So far we've been without spam - hopefully that didn't jinx us - so I don't see myself incorporating Akismet support in the plugin anytime soon. In the event that it becomes an issue, I'll look into it.
Then once everything's broken, I'll let you know @julian
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We also happened to be on an old version of spam-be-gone (
.4
instead of something like.24
), though @bentael assures me it makes no differenceI'd never enabled Askimet because the free plan is supposed to be for non-commercial use only. This morning I decided that this forum constitutes a non-commercial entity (that being a support forum for an open source project), so that was ok.
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do you require email confirmation before allowing new users to post?
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@bentael We do not, no, as this forum was up before that particular option made it into the ACP, and we saw no reason to restrict it.
I could turn it on, though I'd also point out that with some of these "temporary email" services, it's almost trivial to automate the email verification process.
(I keep spelling it as Marinator )
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okay.. i dont know.. how are these bots bypassing captcha on registration? Mechanical Turk? OCR ?
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@a_5mith said:
@bentael, any chance akismet can be trained to look at the topic title as well as the post content. Current spam is only in the title. Whether the title is included in post content or something like that.
Could it be something as simple as changing
comment_content: data.content,
to:
comment_content: data.title + data.content,
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@xbenjii said:
@a_5mith said:
@bentael, any chance akismet can be trained to look at the topic title as well as the post content. Current spam is only in the title. Whether the title is included in post content or something like that.
Could it be something as simple as changing
comment_content: data.content,
to:
comment_content: data.title + data.content,
As the title could be considered a top-level header, how about we add a couple newlines?
comment_content: data.title + "\n\n" + data.content,
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Not really, at least Akismet API does not have anything to do with a title, http://akismet.com/development/api/#comment-check
however, I just combined
title + '\n' + content
to get sent to AkismetAn embarrassing thing i just noticed, is that the spam-be-gone plugin is only listening to
filter:topic.reply
so all the topics creation are not getting checked because they firefilter:topic.post
@julian, @a_5mith opened my eyes that Akismet was not checking new Topics creation, only topic replies, so I added it
I just published nodebb-plugin-spam-be-gone@0.3.52 that fixes this issue.