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[Aaron Wells <1250641@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We had another big chunk of forum spam this past Friday. A user
registered and posted around 200 forum posts in Korean, with a domain
name sort of spelled out with spaces, like "www example com". This went
right past our probation checks, which only limit full URLs like
"http://www.example.com";, under the assumption that any other kind of
message is sort of useless for a spammer. Apparently this spammer did
not think it was useless.

So, we need to step up our spam game once again. After discussing it
around the office, the latest proposal is to add a captcha for
probationary users before they can make a forum post. I've filed a new
bug about that here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1432464

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1250641

Title:
  [ongoing] mahara.org forum spam

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Mahara gets a steady annoying flow of forum spam. On a typical day
  it's 5 to 10 messages. This isn't a whole lot, but since the number of
  messages on mahara.org's forums is fairly low, this makes up about 40%
  of the messages each day.

  I'm opening this bug to explore options to deal with this issue.

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