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Spam on Hubzilla

neue medienordnung plus

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 06:09:51 +0100

Two questions:

how is created this Spampost - s. screenshot?
why is this spampost not visible in the thread define profile photo for missing main hub?

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NullSpaceOddity

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 06:59:03 +0100

Under your channel's security settings, the Channel Permissions section has various options for "Can comment on or like my posts". If this is set to "Anyone on the internet", it allows anybody (even if they do not have a Hubzilla account) to post a comment.

With posting open to anyone on the internet, Spambots see your channel as a Wordpress site. They will then leave their spam on your comments just as they would on Wordpress.

An anonymous comment will not appear on the post until you have approved it on the moderator page.

Mike Macgirvin

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 07:03:25 +0100

Your site or a channel on your site allows unregistered people to post moderated comments. This is a moderated comment. It has not been approved, so it will only show on the moderation page until approved by the channel owner. If you don't want it to show up on your site, don't approve it. Spam like this is the reason very few people allow unregistered people to comment.

Tim Schlotfeldt ⚓

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:09:25 +0100

I just recognized, that that a deleted, moderated comment brings up the article in the stream (sorted by be comments). Is this possible?

Mike Macgirvin

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 21:08:11 +0100

@Tim Schlotfeldt That shouldn't be possible. I'm not in a place where I can set up a test environment and duplicate it at this moment, but if that's happening it needs attention. Are you able to file an issue on github?

Tim Schlotfeldt ⚓

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:19:29 +0100

@Mike, I'll try to figure out what happened so I can file a bug.

Mike Macgirvin

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:00:48 +0100

Any additional info would be nice, but I just want to make sure that this doesn't scroll away without recording it in the issues list.