how about keeping a list of these "very often GET'd user/* names and if it hits a certain number message people woh can deleteaccounts right away
2017-05-23 14333, 2017
zas
each profile has to be checked, but most are prolly editors with no edit, or recently created
2017-05-23 14334, 2017
CatQuest
and keep doing that
2017-05-23 14348, 2017
CatQuest
sothat peopel can check them and delete them accordingly
2017-05-23 14324, 2017
CatQuest
(I kinda don't wnt being able to watching my profile account you have to bel ogged in, i mena i link that all over the place as a n advertisment *for* mb)
2017-05-23 14334, 2017
ruaok
yep.
2017-05-23 14358, 2017
ruaok
zas: can you please prepare to run these queries daily, with a report that links back to the user profile?
2017-05-23 14306, 2017
CatQuest
i cna go trought them if you guys want?
2017-05-23 14319, 2017
CatQuest
erh these zas listed today i mena :)
2017-05-23 14324, 2017
alastairp
are there things like akismet for user profiles? does it make sense to perform some kind of validation on profile edits as they're made?
2017-05-23 14326, 2017
ruaok
CatQuest: thanks, but lets leave this to reosarevok, Freso
2017-05-23 14331, 2017
CatQuest
alright!
2017-05-23 14341, 2017
ruaok
alastairp: we need one, for sure.
2017-05-23 14350, 2017
zas
ruaok: ok, i'll look in an efficient way to do it
2017-05-23 14301, 2017
ruaok
thx
2017-05-23 14305, 2017
alastairp
I guess it's clear that these are being made manually? since we have captcha
2017-05-23 14314, 2017
CatQuest
oh no pita about not adding url to my profile tohguh.. i'll be ok with it if "validated" users lie kme and others who literally edit alotds coudl add links and stuff
2017-05-23 14355, 2017
CatQuest
when I say "validated" I mean, autoeditors, all theditors that make loads of editors like hibiscus etc
great, thanks. Freso, reosarevok. Can you please help out?
2017-05-23 14319, 2017
ruaok
we need to implement the suggestion from last nights meeting ASfuckingAP.
2017-05-23 14346, 2017
ruaok
and we need a report that lists all users who have a bio/link, but zero edits.
2017-05-23 14331, 2017
CatQuest
I remember when.. ian showed me numbers /graps and said that they were spammers
2017-05-23 14331, 2017
CatQuest
and I explaimed we shoudl delete thme
2017-05-23 14331, 2017
CatQuest
and he didn't (and noone esle did either) care sicne they jsut sat there and did nothing just inflating user count
2017-05-23 14354, 2017
alastairp
thinking out loud here... if captchas reduce the speed at which spammers can make changes, what about putting them on all (or many) forms? profile edit, collection create/edit
2017-05-23 14354, 2017
ruaok
yup, now that policy is haunting us.
2017-05-23 14357, 2017
CatQuest
ruaok: they could have critiquebrainz works thoguh
2017-05-23 14309, 2017
CatQuest
alastairp: how aobut NO
2017-05-23 14318, 2017
alastairp
google has the invisible captcha now. let them trigger it when they think the user is spammy
2017-05-23 14328, 2017
CatQuest
that is a much better idea
2017-05-23 14337, 2017
CatQuest
++ for that
2017-05-23 14338, 2017
alastairp
(can they report to us how many requests triggered it?)
2017-05-23 14352, 2017
ruaok
I doubt it.
2017-05-23 14310, 2017
outsidecontext has quit
2017-05-23 14313, 2017
ruaok
making it harder to edit the profile is a good starting point.
2017-05-23 14323, 2017
ruaok
removing a pile of users would also help a lot
2017-05-23 14326, 2017
alastairp
it doesn't make sense to add it if we can't see the impact that it has on changes
2017-05-23 14332, 2017
CatQuest
this is one case where being right all those years ago does not please me :/
2017-05-23 14333, 2017
ruaok
yeah, agreed.
2017-05-23 14345, 2017
ruaok
lots of people have shouted me down on spam,but I am going to take a much harder stance now.
2017-05-23 14322, 2017
ruaok
at least all of this is finally starting to make sense. NONE of the entity pages or otherwise MB centric stuff is showing up in the top.
2017-05-23 14324, 2017
CatQuest
just! don't make it harder for legitimate users editing things :x
2017-05-23 14345, 2017
ruaok
CatQuest: I don't plan to. but I don't plan to let people shout me down from taking action.
2017-05-23 14357, 2017
CatQuest
am I shouting?
2017-05-23 14308, 2017
CatQuest
i'm agreeing with you! infact I say "welcome after!"
