Re: Trac seems to think I'm a spambot...?

On 2014-04-07 at 12:45:49 +0200, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote:

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote:

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More importantly, are external links nofollow'd [1] to reduce spam incentive? Doesn't appear so [2] if you view html source and search for "reddit thread". There's a whole bunch of material when I search for "trac nofollow", so maybe that's the answer.

Apparently 'nofollow' is not the answer, according to:

http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/1145

This guy has a lot of success leaning on Akismet and captcha for this tracspam setup:

http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2012/07/26/howto-configure-tracspam-to-all...

well, it was actually Akismet (as well as others) that declared Gergo's content (which was basically a pasted commit message) to be spam (ultimately giving it such a low scoring that even reCaptcha wouldn't compensate for it) Here's the score-computation: Akismet (-5): Akismet says content is spam AuthenticatedUserScore (4): User is authenticated BotScout (-2): BotScout says this is spam (Y|MULTI|IP|0|MAIL|0|NAME|3) Captcha (10): Human verified via CAPTCHA (Recaptcha) Defensio (2): Defensio says content is allowed (legitimate, 0.2, none) Session (0): Existing session found StopForumSpam (0): StopForumSpam says this is spam (username [0.01]) As for the previous question of whether the email-addresses of spammers follow any obvious pattern, not always; we've had a few spammers with ordinary looking gmail.com addresses as well; in the cases they do, one of the external anti-spam service usually classifies it as potential spam...