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Opened 3 years ago

Closed 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

#5485 closed enhancement (fixed)

Include commentator's username in wp-admin

Reported by: carike's profile carike Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Component: Profiles Keywords:
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Description

I'm having an issue where I would like for some comment spammers to be banned, but in order to find their usernames, I first need to unspam it (and potentially confuse Akismet) to check their profile on the front end (screenshot included).

Please include the commentator's username in wp-admin.

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Change History (16)

@carike
3 years ago

#1 @tobifjellner
3 years ago

Some "make" blogs allows any logged-in user to create a post. It would be golden to see the author's username for posts, too, in the back-end post list.

#2 follow-up: @Ipstenu
3 years ago

You can see their email on the spam list, though, and ban spammers that way. For non-logged in users there is no username. Are you having logged in users spamming?

#3 @tobifjellner
3 years ago

On make/polyglots only logged-in users may comment.
On various locales' team pages this setting seems to not be enabled by default. But I'll ask someone to do that.

#4 @Hareesh Pillai
3 years ago

  • Type changed from defect to enhancement

#5 in reply to: ↑ 2 @carike
3 years ago

Replying to Ipstenu:

You can see their email on the spam list, though, and ban spammers that way. For non-logged in users there is no username. Are you having logged in users spamming?

I do not really feel comfortable sharing an e-mail address in a public channel on Slack though. Even if it is a spammer, it detracts from the hard work we have been doing to improve privacy.
The trash has already been emptied, so unfortunately I can't go back and check whether they were logged in. Looks like someone with global permissions will need to check the comment settings. :coffee:

#6 @tobifjellner
3 years ago

Related: #5486

Last edited 3 years ago by SergeyBiryukov (previous) (diff)

#7 @SergeyBiryukov
3 years ago

Profiles is probably not the right component for this, it's mostly for pages under https://profiles.wordpress.org/.

Is this about comments on make.wordpress.org network, or on Rosetta sites?

#8 @tobifjellner
3 years ago

Is this about comments on make.wordpress.org network, or on Rosetta sites?

Both comments on make sites and Rosetta (including /team subsites)

#9 @dd32
3 years ago

This feels like something that should be brought up to Core instead.

#10 @tobifjellner
3 years ago

This feels like something that should be brought up to Core instead.

I'd argue that this is plugin land, rather. WordPress.org is different than the vast majority of WordPress sites in that you need to be registered and logged-in before you're allowed to comment.

#11 @Ipstenu
3 years ago

No, I think this is specific to the .org ecosystem because we are one of the rare places to allow logged in users to post when they may be spam, at scale.

Would not the better fix be to allow banning users from wp-admin on the .org ecosystem? Add a button to Akismet/Spam list that auto adds a user note "Blocked by PERSON via META SITE for comment spam" and sets the user to blocked?

The way we ban isn't likely to be done by other sites, but solving the actual problem (that is 'how can we more easily block users who spam the make blogs') should be the goal for US. :)

#12 @tobifjellner
3 years ago

It's not that hard to drop a line i Forums channel to request blocking (and double-checking if there's more garbage to be handled). But for that I'd still need to have an easy way to see their username, even if I blocked the user, I still may want to check their profile for possible more cleansing to be done.

And I'd be afraid if it was too easy to ban someone by mistake. By spreading this possibility to Rosetta and admins for some 10+ make sites, we'd be adding more than 100 people to a quite dangerous capability.

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #core-comments by dd32. View the logs.


3 years ago

#14 @dd32
2 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

This should not longer be a problem on WordPress.org. As of #5726 all logged in commenters user_url's are set to their public WordPress.org profile.

In r17276-dotorg:

Author Links: Link logged in comments to WordPress.org profiles.

See ​https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5726.

Marking this as fixed.

#15 @dd32
2 years ago

I also took this upstream to core, as I feel it's probably a worthwhile change to core still. #core54473

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