Spam comments from accounts on other pods

diasporasocial-podmin · February 16, 2025, 10:05am

Hi,

I recently get many abuse reports about spam comments on my pod, which turn out to be generated from accounts on other pods. Is there any possibility to block those accounts?
And if such accounts are created on my pod, which flood the comment areas with spam, is it possible to delete them with just one click?

Thanks in advance

tclaus · February 16, 2025, 11:56am

Just a guess - ’ adenholdinh@iviv.hu’ ?
For mass-deletion I use the diaspora_spam script:

github.com

SuperTux88/diaspora/blob/b503a7bc67f3fc3a14e80bf3ec1efc7ec63beb15/script/nerdpol.ch/diaspora_spam.rb#L4


      
          #!/usr/bin/env ruby
          
          # List of spam accounts
          spam_accounts = %w(spamacc@podA spamacc@podB spamacc@mypod)
          
          # Delete comments even if spammer isn't a local user or spam isn't on a
          # local users account.
          # And close accounts of users in spam_accounts that aren't local.
          always_delete = true
          
          # Keep empty (%w() or []) to retract spam comments from remote accounts
          # for all local users
          # retract_for = %w(userA userB)
          retract_for = []

You can also leave the podmin a message.

diasporasocial-podmin · March 28, 2025, 10:03pm

Its been a while, but thanks !

It is actually not so bad as I thought, with just a handful spam comments need to be deleted a few times per week. Although it would be helpful if accounts could simply be blocked (or their comments be forwarded to /dev/null automatically, when they have been marked as spam users).

The main problem that I have now is that I get a lot of emails, when a spam comment or other abuse content is reported. As the podmin user and as my personal user too, since I enabled this account as admin. This is really annoying. Is there a way to switch off the email notifications on abuse reports? Or, better, decrease that to one email per day, when unexamined messages exist? I didn’t find something in the config template regarding this, but maybe there is another work around?

diasporasocial-podmin · March 28, 2025, 10:07pm

Ah, nevermind. Found that setting in the notification settings area in the UI . Not soo advanced as I’d like to have it (once per day on unexamined messages), but at least I can get rid of the spam emails when spam is reported