Bug #63597 Spam is increasingly becoming a problem
Submitted: 5 Dec 2011 8:42 Modified: 17 Feb 2012 10:13
Reporter: Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Websites: bugs.mysql.com Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:n/a OS:Any
Assigned to: Vlad Safronov CPU Architecture:Any

[5 Dec 2011 8:42] Peter Laursen 
Description:
Spam is increasingly becoming a problem in bugs.mysql.com. I have 95 open bug reports (excluding feature requests) and probably 200+ that were closed, duplicates or 'not a bug's.

I get notifications for those (around 50 per week) and a handfull of those are spam.

Even though a little annoying, it is not a very big problem at the moment. But I expect that the problem will only grow over time.  6-9 months ago spam here was rare.  Now it is an everyday phenomenon. This one arrived this morning: http://bugs.mysql.com/?id=58954

How to repeat:
See above.

Suggested fix:
Before things get out of control I think you should consider installing a spam filter of some kind.

ASKIMET recommended if it can 'fit in'.

In our (Wordpress) Blog (http://www.webyog.com/blog/) we use the ASKIMET plugin and it filters 50-100 spam posts every week (in peak periods much more) and we never had a false positive as far as I remember.

But there may be alternatives.
[5 Dec 2011 8:56] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Yes, I've already tried to escalate this problem more than once...
[5 Dec 2011 9:16] Peter Laursen 
sorry .. it is named 'Akismet' and not 'Askimet' ..
[9 Dec 2011 17:41] Vlad Safronov 
I have banned those accounts. Will check Akismet tool.
[10 Dec 2011 8:14] Peter Laursen 
And here: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=37571
[12 Dec 2011 16:46] Vlad Safronov 
OK, this one has been banned as well.
[14 Dec 2011 14:52] Vlad S. 
recaptcha test.
[14 Dec 2011 21:33] Peter Laursen 
and here http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=62544
[15 Dec 2011 13:32] Vlad S. 
more recaptcha test
[15 Dec 2011 14:01] Peter Laursen 
Will a captcha system do the trick here?  I think the spammers are humans and not *bots* ?
[15 Dec 2011 18:58] Peter Laursen 
I do not understand what feedback you want!
[16 Dec 2011 17:19] Vlad Safronov 
Fixed.
[17 Feb 2012 10:13] Peter Laursen 
recapctha did not help here:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=62544