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Saturday, March 17. 2012

GIthub Spam - Urgent action needed

Bruce just complained about getting spam via GitHub following a PostgreSQL commit he made. I've had a look to see if there is a way to disable comments on a repo on GutHub, and I couldn't find it. Neither could Magnus. That's just awful. There's no reason that the Postgres mirror on GitHub should be getting comments. Nobody is going to look at them, anyway. They are nothing more than a spam vehicle. The good folks at GitHub should see to this urgently.

Posted by Andrew Dunstan in PostgreSQL at 18:15 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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In fact, they used to also have a feature to turn off Pull Requests, I *think*. I'm pretty sure I enabled it for the postgres repo. But they took it away (or I'm mistaken and it didn't exist in the first plcae). I did contact support about that one as well, and just got the message that it's not something in their plans. 
 
I do try to keep track of the pull requests that came into the repository and redirected people to the mailinglists. Unfortunately, with all the spam lately they're much easier to miss...

#1 Magnus Hagander (Homepage) on 2012-03-17 18:29 (Reply)

The only thing I could find is to turn off email notifications of comments. There is two ways to do this via the Notification Center in Account Settings or at the bottom of the commit page there is a link to turn off notifications for that commit.

#2 Adrian Klaver on 2012-03-17 20:18 (Reply)

Yes, basically, everyone who commits and has a github account that matches their commit email address has to turn off notifications.

#3 Bruce Momjian on 2012-03-21 00:23 (Reply)

Time for a bigger hammer:) 
 
Repo hooks: 
http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/hooks/ 
 
Commit options 
http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/commits/#list-commit-comments-for-a-repository 
 
At bottom is: 
 
Delete a commit comment 
 
DELETE /repos/:user/:repo/comments/:id

#4 Adrian Klaver on 2012-03-22 04:55 (Reply)

No, that's the wrong solution. This is something GitHub needs to tackle, not that every individual user should have to tackle.

#4.1 Andrew Dunstan on 2012-03-22 05:22 (Reply)

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