Opened 3 weeks ago
Last modified 10 days ago
#7822 new feature request
Handling spam in comment edits on Trac
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Description
A new pattern has been seen on core Trac recently where a comment gets published and then subsequently edited to include hundreds or thousands of spam links.
An example from today is https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60789#comment:34 - be warned that opening this URL will probably lock up your browser due to the high number of links in the comment.
There have been several dozen examples of this pattern over the last couple of months. The main problem is causes is that it prevents contributors from interacting with the ticket once the spam links have been put into place.
What can be done about this? Is there an anti-spam measure that can be implemented when a comment gets edited?
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This is pending work from systems (who were waiting on my go-ahead on testing Trac)
The trac anti-spam module needs to be updated, which requires updating trac, which requires updating other trac plugins, which requires.. etc..