Spam comments

Submitted by simonhjohnson on Thu, 11/02/2010 - 14:45

it's a waste of time reviewing updates to topics here as most updates seem to be no more than spam comments. Can this be sorted out? It gives a really poor impression.

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Simon, I know what you mean.

Posted by Richard Stirling on Sat, 13/02/2010 - 10:15

Simon,

I know what you mean. I think those were spam 'trackbacks' - or sites that linked to the forum posts. This is something that we fixed in yesterday's release.

Thanks for the feedback (we do read it all!)

Richard

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Spam Filters

Posted by stevestan on Tue, 23/11/2010 - 09:27

Hey there, I have just joined this site and am very glad that the spam filters are doing their jobs. This is a good site but does need fluffing up a little due to the lack of content.

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It can be interresting to put

Posted by Monbuzz on Wed, 26/01/2011 - 09:55

It can be interresting to put a capcha to post on the forum because many spammers use softwares ... :)

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Captcha

Posted by cedomir87 on Sat, 30/04/2011 - 00:47

I don`t know how much of a good idea is it because captcha will just irritate regular people and there are paid services to use with "blackhat softwares" that can take care of captcha...

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Why would typing in a simple

Posted by BillFisher on Mon, 16/05/2011 - 07:54

Why would typing in a simple captcha irritate people? And someone doesn't need blackhat software to get past captcha, they can type it in just as easily as anyone else can.

I utilize captchas and trick questions on my forum, but they are only effective against spamming BOTS, not real humans.

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like your quesiton

Posted by matthewchuw on Sun, 06/01/2013 - 03:47

really like your question,and i also have the same quesiton, while never post it.

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Difficult to solve

Posted by james406 on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 14:09

I think that's the issue. Since this website has so many links to it, it really needs some sort of strong protection from spam, and yes this will include humans. It's very difficult - basically a decent team of people is needed for it to be usable!

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I would try adding a flood

Posted by godsavethequeen on Thu, 19/05/2011 - 14:53

I would try adding a flood control, basically making sure that no posts can be made 10 seconds after eachother, and also set up a captcha although with user level permissions. By this I mean make a captcha mandatory for those with less than 50 posts.

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Spammers

Posted by takethatmark on Tue, 31/05/2011 - 13:10

I see much discussion about how to deal with spammers but very little to describe exactly what a spammer is. It seems that depending upon which particular area of the internet you are involved in the definition of a spammer varies greatly. Our company takes the approach of offering information to the end user completely free of charge but monetise what ever content we have with advertising and banners. This is viewed by many to be "spamming" but I find it difficult to see a way to give users the level of information they want without a cost being incurred somewhere - is it more "spammish" to charge directly for access to data than to give it for free in the hope that people will go on to buy other services that you promote?

This is an area that I'm very passionate about, we live in times of ever increasing unemployment and rising costs, simply applying the label "spammer" to any organisation that attempts to be commercially viable is not going to help turn around the country's problems. Looking at most of the apps that are being developed using data.gov data sources I think it would be difficult to find one that was not described by someone as being "spam"

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Action

Posted by Visitor on Thu, 16/06/2011 - 15:54

So, now, how do you get rid of the spammers???

I think it is a good question which merits some research.

Have you guys seen the stats on online activity laterly?

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                why not turn

Posted by Alan33 on Wed, 09/11/2011 - 08:46

                why not turn on your spam filter setting or ask for some details that you think can’t be filled up by spammer (sure they won’t pay attention and just leave)…;)

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I just wonder how simon

Posted by reyborn on Sun, 20/11/2011 - 14:19

I just wonder how simon concluded that the comments here are mostly spam and its a waste of time to read it. Please remember not all visitors here are smart and inteligent enough like you. If that's the only thing they can write or say here then we cant consider them as spam.

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Spam - and why is everything going dead

Posted by exstat on Wed, 23/11/2011 - 11:05

Some of them are sufficiently intelligent to include a link to the website of the company they represent - not too much doubt about them.

To be honest the forum seems to be going through a slow death process.  I see the Ideas section has just been chopped, perhaps for that reason, but I have not yet found anything on the site which gives an explanation. 

Why is there such apathy now?  Enthusing the wider user community was one of a number of topics that the consultation did not seem to address.  Perhaps the site's concentration on the minutiae of government activities is turning serious analysts off.

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Spam - and why is everything going dead

Posted by chetanpatel on Tue, 29/11/2011 - 12:42

Hi exstat 

Thanks for your comments just to let you know the ideas section has been temporarily moved to the 'data section' http://data.gov.uk/data.

We do our best to read every comment on the site and moderate spam - users can also help out by flagging comments to us.

Thanks for your comments and contributions to the site.

Kind regards

Chetan

Data.gov.uk Team  

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Yes I also agreed with above

Posted by Andrew Georff on Sat, 15/12/2012 - 13:28

Yes I also agreed with above given commnets!!

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agree more

Posted by matthewchuw on Sun, 06/01/2013 - 03:48

i agree with you

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yes

Posted by clemogus on Sun, 08/01/2012 - 15:58

this is absolutely true i agreed wit it

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rss spam

Posted by Visitor on Tue, 07/02/2012 - 12:47

for info, the rss feed is still more spam than anything else. This needs to be sorted out.

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If you use WordPress, you can

Posted by peterparklaw on Thu, 23/02/2012 - 21:31

If you use WordPress, you can sort it out with a plugin, which stops any pingbacks and that can eliminate any spam comments created by bots.

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Anything new

Posted by LekovicMilos on Sun, 16/12/2012 - 00:14

The only solution for this problem is very long registration process. Maybe then, spammers will see that and say "What? I will not post comment on a site where registration takes 15 minutes". Who wants to participate in open data program, that will not quit on some registration process. Spammers maybe will.

BTW, my colleague and I are planning to launch an open data project in Serbia. :) We want to raise awareness of Serbian people. This is the right forum for us, so I will definitely send him this link, to see what are you guys talking on this subject.

ps Sorry for my bad English.

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This may not work - just a

Posted by Adrian Marsden on Wed, 06/02/2013 - 13:27

This may not work - just a test - as last year ALL my posts were knocked out due to the spam filters.

Yay- it worked - sorry - but this seemed like a good topic to post on to test.

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'Spam filters'

Posted by Owen Boswarva on Wed, 06/02/2013 - 17:34

I don't think Data.gov.uk has ever had automatic spam filters that delete posts after they are posted. However if all of your posts were knocked out last year it may have been during the big spam clean up in June, conducted manually by the administrators after spam infestations got out of hand. Unfortunately a lot of legitimate posts were removed along with the spam.

-- Owen Boswarva, 06/02/2013

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