[Libreoffice-qa] Spammer Countermeasures

[Xisco Fauli]

Hello Luke,

At the moment we already have some measures in place against spammers.

If the bug is fixed, just set it to CLOSED, so the next time a spammer
writes a comment with an URL to that ticket, the spammer will get banned
automatically.

OTOH, if the bug is still open, just let me know, so I will add it to a
list and the same will happen, the spammer will get banned automatically
the next time.

Cheers

On 12/11/21 18:30, Luke Benes wrote:
> Just in the past few days, I have been getting spam from the LO bug tracker. The rate of spam in my inbox from bugzilla seems to be rapidly increasing from monthly to nearly daily. 
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> Could we please consider adding the spam guards? How about added a basic Q like "What is the name of the LO program used to create presentations" like Arch does? Any change to the default bugzilla registration form, would eliminate an entire class of spam bots. 
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> Or how about adding the requirement to emailing someone to request a new bugzilla account like the llvm tracker does? I am just as active in both the llvm and arch trackers, but do not receive any spam from them.  
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> Below are some examples of recent spam.
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> -Luke
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/.cgi?id=91687
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90812
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94773
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75057
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Xisco Faulí
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