[wp-docs] Spam pages

[Lorelle on WordPress]

I've started another thread on this by accident. Sorry. Just heard from Matt
that they are going to clean this up and will be stopping open registration
on the Codex, since those registered on the forums and such don't need a
separate login, which may help prevent some of the spammers. Not sure how it
works behind the scenes, but this is a great move.

Thanks!

Lorelle


On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:40 PM, mrmist <listswpdocs at mist.org.uk> wrote:

> In message <4C1E6BA8.8000402 at gmail.com>, "Bernard D. Tremblay (ben)" <
> bernard.d.tremblay at gmail.com> writes
>
>  On 20/06/2010 2:41 AM, mrmist wrote:
>>
>>> As pointed out on the forums
>>> http://wordpress.org/search/viagra?documentation=1&p=7
>>> [...]
>>>
>> Is there some latency here?
>> The first 3 I checked had already been deleted.
>>
>>
> Some of the pages in the search results do appear to have already been
> deleted.  Some more are being deleted just now.  I'm unclear as to how
> quickly the search page updates, but am thinking it's not very.
>
> I think if you drop in around the page 300-400 mark you'd definitely find
> some.
>
> As for your other point, if there's a database way to selectively remove
> the spam, that's brilliant, otherwise it'd be a manual effort (not
> impossible, we scrubbed hundreds when the spam first hit).  It has been
> headed off  - anti spam measures were put in place a few weeks back - the
> ones in this result set pre-date those measures.
>
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