On Nov 8, 2014 9:07 AM, "Ankur Sinha" <sanjay.ankur@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 17:09 +0200, NikTh wrote:
> > I have that strong feeling that if we remove Facebook and Yahoo from
> > login/sign-up options, the things will be much better.
> >
> > Can we do that, even as a test/trial and see how it goes?
>
> How exactly would you test this? You don't know when the spammer is
> going to post. If you're advising that we just switch them off and wait
> for a month, I'm not sure if it's a very good idea - I'd expect quite a
> few users using these authentication methods. The issue is that we
> haven't info on our userbase - who is using what, how many are using
> what. If we can narrow down the methods that the spammer is using, we
> can work on something to limit them.
> --
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
>

Earlier today, Kevin was kind enough to sponsor me for sysadmin-ask and pkg commits on askbot.  I'm going to try my hand at rebasing our patches to the latest upstream release, in a few hours or tomorrow. There will be a feature branch if you want to watch it unfold.

I plan to poke at the django admin views as well.  there's a view for auth/user pairings, for example, but it isn't searchable.  I don't see an immediate way to list blocked users.  If you can think of other ways to look at the data that would help, speak up :)

--Pete