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
zas
each profile has to be checked, but most are prolly editors with no edit, or recently created
CatQuest
and keep doing that
sothat peopel can check them and delete them accordingly
(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)
ruaok
yep.
zas: can you please prepare to run these queries daily, with a report that links back to the user profile?
CatQuest
i cna go trought them if you guys want?
erh these zas listed today i mena :)
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?
ruaok
CatQuest: thanks, but lets leave this to reosarevok, Freso
CatQuest
alright!
ruaok
alastairp: we need one, for sure.
zas
ruaok: ok, i'll look in an efficient way to do it
ruaok
thx
alastairp
I guess it's clear that these are being made manually? since we have captcha
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
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?
we need to implement the suggestion from last nights meeting ASfuckingAP.
and we need a report that lists all users who have a bio/link, but zero edits.
CatQuest
I remember when.. ian showed me numbers /graps and said that they were spammers
and I explaimed we shoudl delete thme
and he didn't (and noone esle did either) care sicne they jsut sat there and did nothing just inflating user count
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
ruaok
yup, now that policy is haunting us.
CatQuest
ruaok: they could have critiquebrainz works thoguh
alastairp: how aobut NO
alastairp
google has the invisible captcha now. let them trigger it when they think the user is spammy
CatQuest
that is a much better idea
++ for that
alastairp
(can they report to us how many requests triggered it?)
ruaok
I doubt it.
outsidecontext has quit
making it harder to edit the profile is a good starting point.
removing a pile of users would also help a lot
alastairp
it doesn't make sense to add it if we can't see the impact that it has on changes
CatQuest
this is one case where being right all those years ago does not please me :/
ruaok
yeah, agreed.
lots of people have shouted me down on spam,but I am going to take a much harder stance now.
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.
CatQuest
just! don't make it harder for legitimate users editing things :x
ruaok
CatQuest: I don't plan to. but I don't plan to let people shout me down from taking action.
CatQuest
am I shouting?
i'm agreeing with you! infact I say "welcome after!"