This site is a static archive of the Aegir community site. Documentation has moved to http://docs.aegirproject.org. Other community resources can be found on the Contacting the community page.
Skip navigation

Revision of Despamming guide from Mon, 12/29/2014 - 20:09

Help

Despamming guide

We have seen numerous waves of spam on this site. At first we setup mollom, in 2011 but sometimes it is not enough.

Current practices

The very first step is to identify the user account and disable it (not delete it, we need it to find the content to remove).

Views Bulk Operations views used for despamming:

Note that this will flood your screen with drupal_set_message for every page that is deleted, which may make the site difficult to use for a while. To top that, the final page will list the name of every page that was removed, just to make sure you had enough spam for the day.

You can also use the regular comment view to delete content and report it to mollom if you are patient enough.

You can also delete the account if you are motivated and want to grind that specific axe. Look at the regular user listing for the latest user accounts created.

Other ideas

Need help?

Documentation

The notebook section provides a way for you to store and share information with your group members. With the book feature you can:

  • Add book pages and organize them hierarchically into different books.
  • Attach files to pages to share them with others.
  • Track changes that others have made and revert changes as necessary.
  • Archive books that are no longer of interest to the group. Archived books can be reactivated later if needed.

The revisions let you track differences between multiple versions of a post.