On 31/01/2011 16:45, Claus Reinke wrote:
Is there any way to have a "moderate first comment by new submitter" policy for trac, to avoid the kind of ticket spam we have at the moment?
They seem to have started commenting on existing tickets now (#4510), which could turn into a real mess really quickly, if the currently known spam accounts aren't blocked soon, btw.
We've deleted all the spam tickets and ticket changes. Ian blocked a few IPs, and I've added some more patterns to the spam filter:
Thanks! You've been using trac's spam filter for a while now, and these still got through. Also, I hadn't seen the commenting and "make random changes to fields" aspect before - it could be that someone is improving/testing trac spamming tools (as trac is in wide-spread use).
From checking the spam filter plugin description, and since spammers hardly ever make a useful contribution before posting spam, adopting the mailing list trick of moderating the first post for each new account might help a little (and might be easy to implement for a trac hacker).
If such a thing is already available as a plugin then we can drop it in, but otherwise it's unlikely - we don't really have the brain-cycles available for hacking Trac itself. Cheers, Simon