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How is Github dealing with spam?
- chewxy 14y agoLooks like most of it is handled, since most of them lead to a 404 if you click on the issues. Cache hasn't been invalidated I would guess
- dz0ny 14y agoYea but still can't they block user? Also emails, hooks are still sent...
- rtomayko 14y agoI'm looking into why those are showing up in the issues list. Likely a bug. The user has been marked as spammy for over a month, though, which means notifications (email or web) are not delivered. We should have this cleaned up shortly.
- yen223 14y agoWhatever it was, it's not there anymore. What happened?
- ellie42 14y agoGithub isn't dealing with SPAM. Go to gists, click explore. I've seen some ugly stuff like these: https://gist.github.com/imwinner/5056251 https://gist.github.com/imwinner/5056251 https://gist.github.com/onhkys/5056233 https://gist.github.com/onhkys/5056233 https://gist.github.com/onhkys/5056224 https://gist.github.com/onhkys/5056224 since the beginning of the gist.github.com re-launch
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- venus 14y agoWow, they've definitely gone on a spam-killing spree recently. Following that scandal a few weeks back where someone had, uh, "inappropriate" downloads in their checked-in public .bash_history, I did a few searches and found insane amounts of spam in github pages. It's all gone now, as far as I can tell. You can view the lingering google results with a porn-themed search like "site:github.com pthc"†. Typical cached result: hxxp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zLf3TgpkocQJ:byronboxx.github.com/82.html † that is a child porn-associated acronym. Use common sense deciding how or if you are going to get yourself on the record searching for that. edit: made the link unclickable due to reasonable concerns expressed below.
- jabiko 14y agoThis time I regret clicking a link before reading the surrounding text. Maybe you want to replace "http:// http:// with "hxxp://"?
- ledneb 14y ago^ sorry to post a "+1" comment but, yeah. This. Edit: As a matter of fact, assuming something on that post could link off to something substantial regarding it's subject, should that link even be allowed to stay here?
- venus 14y ago> assuming something on that post could link off to something substantial regarding it's subject I don't think that is the case; it's only using the keyword so it can be indexed against it. The links themselves are either self referential or your generic spam links. Definitely wouldn't have linked it otherwise!
- edu 14y agoAgree :(
- neya 14y agoEven I regret clicking it before reading your disclaimer :(
- pyvek 14y agoI have also seen automated accounts being operated by bots similar to those twitter bots who follow you and unfollow you if you don't start following them within specified amount of time. Example: https://github.com/gitlisted?tab=activity https://github.com/gitlisted?tab=activity
- shurcooL 14y agoThey very recently added a feature to Gist to help deal with spam. https://github.com/blog/1426-spam-spam-spam-spam https://github.com/blog/1426-spam-spam-spam-spam
- shurcooL 14y agoI wonder if the system to report abuse can be abused. Can someone report someone's non-spammy gist as abuse and get it removed? Will that person get some sort of notification or warning so that he get a chance to backup the (legitimate, non-spam) gist? Because if there's a chance that one's valuable gists get deleted without warning, that's a concern.
- fennecfoxen 14y agoAs far as I'm concerned, there's only one way to deal with SPAM™: Eggs. Contrast this with spam, where the appropriate response is eggs-termination. I would be modestly interested in seeing Github and Hormel square off in some epic conflict. :P No seriously, isn't the spammy spam supposed to be lowercased? </pedantry>
- blockjack 14y agoActually, 'spam' in the electronic sense is apparently linked to a Monthy Python sketch involving a restraunt where everything contains Spam. From Wikipedia: In the 1980s the term was adopted to describe certain abusive users who frequented BBSs and MUDs, who would repeat "Spam" a huge number of times to scroll other users' text off the screen. In early chat rooms ..., they actually flooded the screen with quotes from the Monty Python Spam sketch. One could therefore argue that uppercase is the correct presentation.
- derekp7 14y agoI always thought it stood for Self Propelled Advertising Mechanism or something like that.
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- jasonkester 14y agoAnybody know what we're supposed to be seeing here? It looks like the "issues" page for a random project, with one open issue. What does this have to do with Spam? Or even Github for that matter (apart from being a url at github.com?)
- shurcooL 14y agoLook at some replies below. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5298273 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5298273 There used to be spam in the issues list, but now it's gone.