[Qgis-psc] spam in Redmine :-(

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Matthias,

On Thu, 30. Nov 2017 at 17:06:54 +0100, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> If a) the possibility to move issue tracking to a managed platform is
> excluded and b) the possibility to have a mantra-less osgeo signup
> procedure (*) is excluded, I'm quite happy with what we currently have
> on redmine and would propose to stick to this. We can dedicate the
> resources which currently handle mantra-ing to jobs like blocking users
> which have been identified as spammers.
> Without having exact numbers, so far I'd say less effort has been bound
> to cleaning up and blocking compared to answering mantras.

As far as I'm concerned both are tied together - local redmine accounts stay as
long as the mantra stays.

But the spam to OSGeo-TRAC was massive - and was also tied to the mantra.  Spam
there, users locked, spam removed, more users, more spam, death spiral,
mantra introduced, spam gone, mantra removed, spamming users reappeared - give
or take captchas, mantra reintroduced, spam gone again.

And still
mantras are a no-go for QGIS to me.
mantras are a no-go for QGIS to me.
mantras are a no-go for QGIS to me.


Jürgen

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