On 15/09/2019 11.33, Christian Boltz wrote:
Hello,
Am Samstag, 14. September 2019, 16:38:26 CEST schrieb Carlos E. R.:
You know perhaps that Stefan and I volunteered to curtail spam on the https://connect.opensuse.org platform. I'm seeing a suspicious activity from one user and need advice. I don't know whom to ask, but I do not want to ask on main mail list.
A "she" user registered yesterday. I did not notice anything definitely suspicious. But today she seems to be "making friends" with everybody, pages and pages of that.
170 pages of friends. Should I ban and or delete her?
I see that "rose25" was already banned, but I'll answer nevertheless ;-)
I did that myself, not knowing what to do, just in case she does something worse. Otherwise, I can unban just as easily. A delete can not be undone.
What you've seen clearly looks like spam(mer) behaviour, therefore the ban is correct.
Thanks for the confirmation.
She is also "friend of" 10 users.
I'm quite sure lots of people just blindly "friend back" when getting a friendship request - actually I'm surprised that only 10 of our users out of the 1700 "friends" did this ;-)
Or worse, "the bad guys" prepared in advance some subscriptions to make friends and look normal. Now I think I'll wait a week and then delete her, in order to delete the friendly associations. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)