Unable to post, Akismet says my post is spam
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Anyway round this, all I want to do is post how I figured out to get NodeBB to work on Centos with MongoDB with on a domain name without the port number 4567.
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Very occasionally, Akismet will reject posts as spam even if they're perfectly innocuous.
We'll see if we can introduce some changes to the spam-be-gone plugin (@psychobunny's ideas):
- Skip the check if your rep is above a certain threshold
- Show a CAPTCHA instead of rejecting the post outright.
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@julian said:
Very occasionally, Akismet will reject posts as spam even if they're perfectly innocuous.
We'll see if we can introduce some changes to the spam-be-gone plugin (@psychobunny's ideas):
- Skip the check if your rep is above a certain threshold
- Show a CAPTCHA instead of rejecting the post outright.
These are great ideas for the plugin!
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Hi, you are aware I am referring to this forum and not my own, right?
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@brownsmart said:
Hi, you are aware I am referring to this forum and not my own, right?
Spam be gone plugin is the same for whichever forum is running it. It can false flag a post randomly.
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hhhmm, i just want to post a guide on how I was able to install nodebb on my centos 6 server and setup the proxy to use your own domain. but it wont let me.
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HAHAH I did!! realised Akismet does not like links to outside sources.
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@julian hope you can do both soon enough. It was very frustrating not being able to post references. I think I've never spammed in my life, yet those robots are not much better than humans in filtering me out. Maybe this is just a very personal frustration thing, but well, anyway, here you go with some (more) feedback.
Another ideas:
- Improve the message about the spam. Advise people to remove links maybe. (You're probably aware of this general idea of no intro stage)
- Set a threshold for adding up to 1 or 2 links at least (like discourse do), without akismet getting to it.
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@Caue-Rego I like your first idea. Giving the user hints on how to keep their posts from being caught by the spam filter would be very useful.
However your second point is not a good idea. It only takes one url to a bad site to put corrupt cookies on the user's pc.
I think you were having trouble because during your first few hours as a new user the rules are more strict. In a few days it will get better.
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Sure I was having trouble as a newbie but that's not something to be taken
so lightly. "oh, just a newb issue, let it burn it will heal".Also, more about the second idea, it seems to work just fine for discourse.
Maybe it doesn't use akismet, though, but something else
http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/10/04/Spam+bacon+sausage+and+blog+spam+a+JavaScript+approach.On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 16:38 NodeBB Community Robot [email protected]
wrote:Hello Caue Rego,
Nivix has posted a reply to: Unable to post:
@Caue-Rego
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I like your first idea. Giving the user hints on how to keep their posts
from being caught by the spam filter would be very useful.However your second point is not a good idea. It only takes one url to a
bad site to put corrupt cookies on the user's pc.I think you were having trouble because during your first few hours as a
new user the rules are more strict. In a few days it will get better.Thanks!
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---- Caue Rego +1 732 7377346 www.cregox.comedit: also looks like emailing in doesn't work as good as in there, although I bet this was already well known...
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@cregox While comparing/contrasting NodeBB to other products can be healthy if the intention is to uplift the community or provide positive feedback/criticism; saying "NodeBB is doing it wrong because Discourse does it like this" is not really helpful for the community. Many forums implement a stricter ruleset on new users--it's a common trust system where respect is earned.
NodeBB is open source, and if you are not happy with it's current iteration feel free to fork it and change it to fit your personal needs.
Or if you are pleased with Discourse and prefer the direction their developers have taken, it too is open source.But the two products are very different--yes they solve the same issue but with very different personalities. I started with Discourse, ran a forum on it for a while, had lots of backend troubles and spam issues..finally moved to NodeBB and I've been happy with it. Do I miss things from Discourse? Sometimes. But I can't complain knowing that I have access to the source code and can change anything I want.
And if you are not technically inclined, I assume if you hosted your forum through NodeBB.org their development team would be more than happy to tweak your forum until it suits your personal needs.
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Well we (or at least I promise I do!) take UX problems seriously. Just please post on our GH tracker, and we will look into it as always
I know this is a plugin, but it's bundled with core so therefore we should care and make sure it works as best as it can.
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@psychobunny Mandrill isn't, actually. Maybe it was for a time, but we reversed that some time ago I guess!
In any case, while we still have a free plan on Mandrill, new users don't (since they changed their pricing last), so this pretty much means I no longer want to offer Mandrill as the official mail plugin.
Perhaps I'll look into adding this into Sendgrid...
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@julian Oh, thanks for making me aware. I've never noticed that Mandrill stopped offering free emails. I wish there was a better sollution for sending emails that was also partly free (Like Mandrills 12.000 free mails) & includes a inbox or 2.
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@psychobunny said:
Well we (or at least I promise I do!) take UX problems seriously. Just please post on our GH tracker, and we will look into it as always
I know this is a plugin, but it's bundled with core so therefore we should care and make sure it works as best as it can.
Maybe this is yet another thing to learn from discourse... Sorry if I cite them a lot, but I really love the job being done there. And I find nodeBB, despite the bad name (fixating on technology), a very promising fork of it IMHO!
They gave up on using GitHub issue tracker in favor of using the forums. Quite a while ago.
( Trying to post what you read above, I couldn't again... Got flagged by akismet again! Something is really wrong there! Clearing up cookies didn't help, had to remove the link and edit it back. )
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@cregox said in Unable to post, Akismet says my post is spam:
Maybe this is yet another thing to learn from discourse... Sorry if I cite them a lot, but I really love the job being done there. And I find nodeBB, despite the bad name (fixating on technology), a very promising fork of it IMHO!
As is well known, and as you were told in another thread, NodeBB is not a fork of another forum, and it doesn't share technology stack with Discourse.
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@cregox said in Unable to post, Akismet says my post is spam:
Sorry if I cite them a lot, but I really love the job being done there.
Aren't you a dev there? They list your avatar on their dev list.
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@cregox said in Unable to post, Akismet says my post is spam:
a very promising fork of it IMHO!
For those who aren't aware, Discourse is built on Ruby on Rails. NodeBB is built on NodeJS. Totally different languages, platforms, architectures, etc.
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@scottalanmiller said in Unable to post, Akismet says my post is spam:
@cregox said in Unable to post, Akismet says my post is spam:
Sorry if I cite them a lot, but I really love the job being done there.
Aren't you a dev there? They list your avatar on their dev list.
No they don’t. You misread that page
