On 23/02/2019 08.37, Mathias Homann wrote:
Am Samstag, 23. Februar 2019, 04:10:35 CET schrieb Fraser_Bell:
Hi, Christian:
<Fraser_Bell> Thanks. BTW: I would join Heroes and work on the Connect.o.o replacements, if I had any idea what I was doing. But, not till elections are over. <cboltz> :-) <cboltz> the important part of connect.o.o is handling the membership and maybe being a "phonebook" for openSUSE <cboltz> the other parts (groups, polls etc.) are more or less useless and can easily be dropped <snip>
<cboltz> Fraser_Bell: I also like the https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/$USERNAME pages so if you work on a replacement and keep them, I'll be more than happy ;-) <Fraser_Bell> Yes.
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cboltz> oh, I'm quite sure someone will happily upgrade you if you promise to do the work ;-) <Fraser_Bell> cboltz: Wait until after the Elections, please, I am now down to 20 pounds soaking wet and red, bleary eyes!!!! Elections are over. Let's get started.
How about we think of a way to block out all these d*ck*w**ds that create accounts on it without even knowing what an operating system is, let alone linux, and then just wipe out everything that is not posted by an active member of the community as determined by the same mechanism.
That's the job for the people that volunteered to clean the spam (like me). We have to go trough every post, answer if appropriate (some people ask Linux questions, so just tell them to go to the forum or to the mail list), delete if not. Knurpht said that the forum team may have a list of all the spammers they block there, the list might be reused here.
My first thought of how to filter could be:
To be trustworthy, a Member has to have one or more of:
No, that's the job of the Membership Officials. We should not interfere. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)