{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arduino/forum-issues/issues/162","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arduino/forum-issues/issues/162/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arduino/forum-issues/issues/162/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arduino/forum-issues/issues/162/events","html_url":"https://github.com/arduino/forum-issues/issues/162","id":53949784,"number":162,"title":"Suggestion for detecting spam","user":{"login":"nickgammon","id":185088,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/185088?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nickgammon","html_url":"https://github.com/nickgammon","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nickgammon/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nickgammon/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nickgammon/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nickgammon/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nickgammon/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nickgammon/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nickgammon/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nickgammon/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nickgammon/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-01-10T07:09:56Z","updated_at":"2015-01-10T09:50:38Z","closed_at":null,"body":"You know, I can usually pick spam just from the thread title. Here are some examples from today:\r\n\r\n* Forward my lap you're right this \r\n* He continued in his exercise equipment room\r\n* Buy Real/Fake Passports,Driver’s License,ID Cards,Visas, USA\r\n* Top Quality Documents Homes - Purchase Real and Novelty Passports,id cards,\r\n*  Buy Real/Fake Passports,Driver’s License,ID Cards,Visas, USA Green Card,Citizens\r\n* Best Counterfeit EURO & DOLLAR NOTES,PASSPORTS,ID,\r\n* Buy Real Genuine data base Registered and driving licenses\r\n\r\nHow about this?\r\n\r\nFor moderators, show a list of new threads, started by people with no posts (ie. this is their first post) with the thread title and a link to check the thread out. Then have a big button: [ SPAM ]\r\n\r\nThis could appear at the top of every page. And maybe have a [ NOT SPAM ] button, so we can quickly eliminate posts that are genuine.\r\n\r\nI'm still surprised that with this new forum, we can't **auto-detect spam**, like \"passports\". Who the hell needs passports to do electronics? Come on, this isn't rocket science.\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arduino/forum-issues/issues/comments/69450243","html_url":"https://github.com/arduino/forum-issues/issues/162#issuecomment-69450243","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/arduino/forum-issues/issues/162","id":69450243,"user":{"login":"Chris--A","id":6584350,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6584350?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Chris--A","html_url":"https://github.com/Chris--A","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Chris--A/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Chris--A/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Chris--A/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Chris--A/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Chris--A/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Chris--A/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Chris--A/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Chris--A/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Chris--A/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-10T09:50:38Z","updated_at":"2015-01-10T09:50:38Z","body":"An effective mechanism would be a simple honey pot on the 'New topic' page. Combine that with another text box containing some text saying \"Remove this text to post\" (possible language problem).\r\n\r\nThen on the server, a check to ensure the honey pot is still empty, and the text has been removed from the second field will allow the server to reject bots effectively. \r\n\r\nOf course its useless against targeted attacks, but I would argue that it will eliminate almost all of the random spam/advertising posts which is what we seem to be viewing. (targeted attacks would be in high volume, like in the past where 100,000 users were registered in a short time).\r\n\r\n"}}