Description

Antispam block any text that appear on BadContent. So if you want to talk about the site blow``job.org, Antispam will not let you save the page.

The correct behavior is block only links to domains on BadContent. Why? because our problems is LinkSpam, not dirty words. There are no bad words, only bad people who spam our wikis with links. Stop them, keep free speech.

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We should document this behavior now, fix it after release, because its not part of the core but an optional feature.

Antispam just takes what's there on BadContent, and that are REs. URLs can be REs, words can be REs. And as you see above, you can talk about that stuff, just not as matched by a RE. This is no bug. And it is called antispam, not antilinkspam. I would not like to see chinese spam without http:// either. -- ThomasWaldmann 2004-12-02 23:12:13

I also does not like to see chinese spam without http://. But I'm am no worried about it, because they don't put their domain names for us to read, they put links because thats what gives them better rank at Google. They will not spam us with domain names. If they do this, then we can make antispam to match on any text, not only links.

I want to refresh your memory with revision 25 of AntispamGlobalSolution:

• I think we should remove the "bad" words - and put only links in the global bad content. The word p e n i s is not a bad word. In fact, there are no bad words, only bad people. The reason we are doing this content filtering is the link-spam problem, not people using bad words. We can add these words to the local bad content page, so admins can easily add them to the site (if they don't agree with me).

  We should also think of a white list page, maybe LocalGoodContent, and we can use it to pass stuff that admin does not want to block on a specific wiki. -- NirSoffer 2004-08-20 03:20:23

  I strongly agree to both issues above -- FlorianFesti 2004-08-20 08:46:28

  There is no "penis" or bad word filter. Only web addresses containing that word(s) are filtered. And concerning the white list, I will implement it when we NEED it. Until then I will rather improve the blacklist patterns. -- ThomasWaldmann 2004-08-20 09:49:21

  Now its clear. Maybe we should add a line about this at the top of BadContent. --NirSoffer

-- NirSoffer 2004-12-03 00:33:09

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