Hey folks, Those of us who are still connected to the IRC channel surely have noticed spam accounts posting random (machine generated?) garbage. Moderators ban the nicks, but obviously, random ones come back. Keeping on banning won't work. At Linaro, the somewhat controversial move of requiring only registered users to join worked as a deterrent, but the annoyance of registering may make less savvy users avoid the channel. Moving on to another platform (like Discord) will surely alienate a good part of the community (myself included), but so will letting the spam accounts run free (I'm almost giving up on the channel). I don't know automated spam filtering for IRC (banning bots?), but we usually "speak garbage" ourselves (aka pasting code), so false positive rates will be high. Anyone got better ideas? cheers, --renato
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:21:50AM +0100, Renato Golin via llvm-dev wrote:> Moving on to another platform (like Discord) will surely alienate a > good part of the community (myself included), but so will letting the > spam accounts run free (I'm almost giving up on the channel).I also see little evidence that it would fix the problem of someone having too much time on their hand and wants to be a nuisance. Joerg
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 15:06, Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:> I also see little evidence that it would fix the problem of someone > having too much time on their hand and wants to be a nuisance.AFAICS, this is not the problem. The nicks are clearly randomly generated by smashing words together and the content seems to be what comes out of a language model after reading angry Facebook posts. Registering is quick and easy and would filter 99% of the automated accounts. Not 100% and not the people with too much time in their hands. But those, nothing will. It's like a bicycle lock: the bigger your lock, the more likely the thief will steal someone else's bike. But someone wanting *your* bike will take it, no matter the lock.