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Discussion on: Spam on dev.to?

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Gracie Gregory (she/her) •

Hello everyone! On behalf of the DEV team, thank you for your help in surfacing and reporting these accounts.

Our team is both proactively seeking these accounts out and responding to complaints around the clock. We are also talking through a more permanent fix but in the meantime, we are banishing users and their posts/comments from the site as we find them.

Thanks again for your help in making DEV a positive, helpful, and spam-free environment for all!

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GOSHROW •

That's great to hear.

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Médéric Burlet •

I know dev team is working hard on this but this is really getting out of hand now:

dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/...

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Médéric Burlet •

@graciegregory Here is a suggestion of spam rules.

Spam Filter Rules Examples:

  • Limit the number of posts that can be posted after registration
  • Simple title analysis (removing numbers) will reveal the similarity percentage to be high (60%+)
  • Auto ban or disable posting when more than 5 articles are published in less than an hour
  • Check age of account vs post rate
  • Add re-captcha to the publishing action

source: dev.to/crimsonmed/updating-dev-spa...