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Here are measures to remove spam, in increasing. Here are measures to remove spam, in increasing order.
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- go to the message, click on "close" or "delete" if someone already closed it.  * go to the message, click on "close" or "delete" if someone already closed it.
 * a discussion started on the policy about this (should we remove it direclty and block the user, should we let another chance), since some message are not clearly spams, look at the archives of sage-askbot-admin mailing-list.
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- click on the user's nickname (bottom right of the question)
- click on "moderation" (top right)
- click on "block user and delete all content"
 * click on the user's nickname (bottom right of the question)
 * click on "moderation" (top right)
 * click on "block user and delete all content"
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- go to http://ask.sagemath.org/settings/MODERATION/
- add the typical keywords appearing in the spams on the "Reject all posts with these phrases" field.
 * go to http://ask.sagemath.org/settings/MODERATION/
 * add the typical keywords appearing in the spams on the "Reject all posts with these phrases" field.
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- go to http://ask.sagemath.org/settings/ACCESS_CONTROL/
- select "Allow only registered user to access the forum"
 * go to http://ask.sagemath.org/settings/ACCESS_CONTROL/
 * select "Allow only registered user to access the forum"
 * W should find a way to temporary block user registration.

If you feel you can help to fight spam, please ask for an admin account.

Here are measures to remove spam, in increasing order.

isolated spam message

  • go to the message, click on "close" or "delete" if someone already closed it.
  • a discussion started on the policy about this (should we remove it direclty and block the user, should we let another chance), since some message are not clearly spams, look at the archives of sage-askbot-admin mailing-list.

bunch of spams from the same user

  • click on the user's nickname (bottom right of the question)
  • click on "moderation" (top right)
  • click on "block user and delete all content"

lot of bunch of spams with a similar pattern

overloaded, need to stop the flood

Fight spam on asksage (last edited 2016-02-14 17:02:05 by tmonteil)