Spammers be gone

http://trisquel.info/en/users/hari123

(This is the third time with the same username, it was removed twice before.)

https://trisquel.info/en/users/printersinkcartridges

Ach! Forgot the damn switch!

https://trisquel.info/en/users/hari123

http://trisquel.info/en/users/zhuwenxiu2003

https://trisquel.info/en/users/queencoleman
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-choose-dvd-ripper-and-dvd-ripper-mac

Spam addon: https://trisquel.info/es/browser/addons/hiang-kai-shek-know-future . I don't know how to remove that page.

You know what might be a decent idea then. If we still want to have an open wiki we could have some sort of probation period. New users can't edit the wiki until something like they have been a member for a month.

Forgot the status flip...

Also, these ALL 220 are spammers

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atrisquel.info+"i+like+beer"

https://trisquel.info/es/users/houston24tasha
https://trisquel.info/es/users/brittfanny22
https://trisquel.info/es/users/lizrowland25 (reason)
https://trisquel.info/es/users/gibsonmargarita (reason)

I've deleted all of those, and searched in the whole wiki for additional spammers and deleted (I think) all of them and their pages. I will ask Ruben about maybe defining a wiki-editor role to be needed by users to create/edit the wiki pages, but maybe that would clash with the usual character of an open wiki...

I found a whole ton of spammers advertising in the documentation. Here is a link to the google search which pretty much shows them all. All the ones that talk about how to convert videos are obviously spam and need to be deleted and have their users shut down.

https://trisquel.info/en/users/yeddadigby
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-convert-ts-video-files-windows (Spam page by user advertising non-free software)

https://trisquel.info/en/users/wendyderwin
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-transfer-ipad-photos-pc (spam page created by user advertising non-free software)

https://trisquel.info/en/users/wilonadorset
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-convert-video-iphone (Spam page created by user and it endorses the use of non-free software!)

https://trisquel.info/en/users/jimmy18
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/indicates-fell-close (page created by this user)

https://trisquel.info/en/users/gbgfdbh

https://trisquel.info/en/users/renerl

who also created this "documentation page" which is purely advertising. Needs to be deleted.

https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/samsung-galaxy-note-phablet-set-feb-19-us-launch-att

http://trisquel.info/en/users/davinder01

http://trisquel.info/en/users/jamesmartin86

Dude, you flipped the wrong switch! :)

Hey, i've got an idea! This freak obviously wants to annoy us and interrupt whatever we're doing by chasing him around, so why don't we totally ignore him and let him play all he wants? Maybe he will get bored and start playing with his dick! Sometimes the answer is simpler than we might think.

And maybe just give newcomers a heads up and warning them that we've got an evil mascot... some sort of twisted "Where's Wally". Heck, we could make a betting website out of this and raise funds for the project: Trisquels Find Evil Wally!

Here he is, again: https://trisquel.info/en/users/jhoni

If in doubt look at this post: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/triquel-and-hardware#comment-16231 Deja vu?

https://trisquel.info/en/users/jhoni

http://trisquel.info/en/users/hari123

Could the amount of posts be limited for users who are new, i.e. who haven't posted a number of good posts yet. And maybe even after that, one does not usually need to post 200 posts at once.

New spammer https://trisquel.info/en/users/donna2090

Deleted

here's some more: https://trisquel.info/en/users/defenlate1979

http://trisquel.info/en/users/booddorero1989

Many of those spammers have a name like xxxxxxxx19yy where yy is a number starting with a 7 or 8. And their posts contain awful lot of links (often same number of?). And contain words like viagra. Also they tend to resurrect old posts.

Of course if they are actual people, the captcha is useless and they can read this discussion and adapt to any rules. On the other hand the pattern in choosing usernames would suggest at least a semi-automatic process, could be a human is only used to solve the captcha.

IP blocking likely is ineffective since there are 500 million infected windoze machines that can be used, all with unique IP addys.

I guess the original suggestion of this bug to implement an easy reporting mechanism would be the best solution. Possibly the only solution as well.

I'm triying to find a pattern, but i don't see one :(

The captcha is a bit harder now, hope it helps.

http://trisquel.info/en/users/ecbacoscomp1984
http://trisquel.info/en/users/katheatmive1973

I tag them, you bag em!

http://trisquel.info/en/users/jimlauri361

http://trisquel.info/en/users/throwbuthahus1972
http://trisquel.info/en/users/riaclasimin1978

I looked at his post. He/She/It most certainly is.

I think he's a spammer http://trisquel.info/en/users/jamescarlson