Re: [worldof]gnome forums

[Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com>]

Yes its vanilla forums. I've been busy and haven't checked in in week
or two and it appears most of the spam didn't start till ~the end of
sept/beginning of oct. There's (unfortuantly) no easy, quick way to
delete multiple posts at once :( Having forums that were actively
maintained by gnome would be nice, but that's been flat out refused
multiple times. I'd be happy to assist with official forums, as I have
with these, but thats never been an option and has in fact been flat
out refused.

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
> I can tell you from experience that this forum software can be very easy for
> boys to post to. It looks like Vanilla. I have been on a very well manned
> forum that got a bad spam infection, two of us spent days cleaning it up
> after we blocked the attack vector.
>
> Forums really need a lot of care, and boys are a lot faster than humans.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> On Oct 18, 2013 11:40 PM, "Sriram Ramkrishna" <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Christian Schaller
> > <cschalle linuxrising org> wrote:
> > > Any explanation for why the forum is so unmaintained? I mean I am sure
> > > it
> > > would be possible to get community volunteers to help clean it up.
> >
> > Probably a lack of active volunteers.  I didn't remember it being this
> > bad.  It can work if we get a large enough volunteer pool who are
> > willing ot do spam filtering and also a better infrastructure.
> >
> > It isn't worth putting the effort unless we can at least get a minimal
> > of 5-6 volunteers to manage the forums.
> >
> > sri
> >
> > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Andrea Veri <av gnome org> wrote:
> > > > The worldofgnome.org's domain was renewed a few minutes ago and it
> > > > should
> > > > be live again soon.
> > > >
> > > > cheers,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2013/10/15 Andrea Veri <av gnome org>
> > > > > I was suggested to give [1] a try and honestly speaking it really
> > > > > looks
> > > > > like a good alternative to the current forums at worldofgnome.org with
> > > > > a big
> > > > > plus: the platform will be maintained by the GNOME Sysadmin Team and
> > > > > possibly by a team of moderators.
> > > > >
> > > > > As a note seems the worldofgnome.org's domain wasn't renewed in time
> > > > > and
> > > > > the website went down, I'll try and poke Alex about that asap.
> > > > >
> > > > > cheers,
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] http://www.discourse.org/
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 2013/10/14 Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>
> > > > > > Hi;
> > > > > >
> > > > > > we seem to promote forums.worldofgnome.org as our (semi?)official
> > > > > > forums: we link to it from the homepage of https://wiki.gnome.org/
> > > > > > under
> > > > > > 'Communication', and also, more importantly, allow it to use the
> > > > > > GNOME
> > > > > > logo.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > However, those forums are overrun with spam:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - *All* of the 'popular tags' (as seen on the right hand sidebar on
> > > > > > the
> > > > > >   forums) are spam words.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - Looking at the list of all 'discussions' at
> > > > > >   http://forums.worldofgnome.org/discussions shows that the content
> > > > > >   itself is all spam, as well.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So those forums are of no use to our users. Therefore, I think
> > > > > > we should remove the link from wiki.g.o to the forums, and we should
> > > > > > rethink their authorisation to use the GNOME logo.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > >         Christian
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> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >
> > > > > Andrea
> > > > >
> > > > > Debian Developer,
> > > > > Fedora / EPEL packager,
> > > > > GNOME Sysadmin,
> > > > > GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
> > > > >
> > > > > Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Andrea
> > > >
> > > > Debian Developer,
> > > > Fedora / EPEL packager,
> > > > GNOME Sysadmin,
> > > > GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
> > > >
> > > > Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
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