Comment spam

I clicked on Nokogiri and found that the last 8 comments were spam. (Spread across the last 21 days.)

I didn’t see any way to mark them as such on the site, or any way to bring them to your attention other than by using this forum.

Thanks!

Roger_S

Yeah, same thing for other common gems, like mysql and mongrel.

isitruby1.9 is (was) a very valuable resource. Thanks for that, Brightbox. But now, you’re dragging your name through the mud with the way the site is going, and turning people off from using Ruby 1.9. Either take your site down completely or release the source code to the community so they can help you fix the problem.

UPDATE: Apologies, I see the source code is in fact on Github. I hope there’s a solution that can be found for this spam problem!

UPDATE 2: OK, I just forked it. Before I do anything, let’s have a discussion around it. I’m thinking about adding verification questions:

e.g.

Supply the name of the method on Enumerable (i.e. Enumerable#?) that matches this description:
enum.? {| obj | block } => array
Returns a new array with the results of running block once for every element in enum.

With the answer, of course, being map or collect.

We only need a few of these questions to end the spam problem. Please let me know your thoughts.

Hi Roger, Dave,

thanks for the heads up on this and sorry for not responding sooner. We’ve been manually cleaning up the spam for a while now but it’s relentless. We were rather naive in thinking the captcha would prevent spam on it’s own (though it did ok for a while!).

Anyway, we’re now working on adding proper spam checking, using the defensio.com service. It’s actually been deployed already but we’re still seeing spam so it’s clearly still work in progress. I’d hope we’ll have it sorted next week and the code on github.

John.

I think we’ve cracked the spam problem now. Defensio.com is blocking the majority of it now, with no false positives so far.

John.