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Web spam in OSEM #274

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AndrewKvalheim opened this issue Mar 16, 2022 · 2 comments
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Web spam in OSEM #274

AndrewKvalheim opened this issue Mar 16, 2022 · 2 comments
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User profile pages are being used to host web spam, e.g.:

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For an initial cleanup I manually reviewed the 260 user accounts that contain a link in the biography or a URL in the name, and deleted 219 as spam.

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Part of addressing this should include annotating user-generated links to disincentivize spamdexing. Currently the implementation of openSUSE/osem#2894 conflicts with using Recarpet’s link_attributes: { rel: … }; see unresolved discussion at vmg/redcarpet#720.

@AndrewKvalheim AndrewKvalheim transferred this issue from SeaGL/osem Jun 19, 2022
@AndrewKvalheim AndrewKvalheim added the Tech Relevant to the SRE/Technical committee label Jun 19, 2022
@AndrewKvalheim AndrewKvalheim changed the title Web spam Web spam in OSEM Jun 19, 2022
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AndrewKvalheim added a commit to AndrewKvalheim/osem that referenced this issue Mar 4, 2023
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Set nofollow on links in Markdown content
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To disincentivize spamdexing, links in user-generated content should be
disavowed by annotation with `rel="nofollow"` attributes:

  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

Automated spam has already targeted OSEM in the wild:

  - SeaGL/organization#274

Ideally link annotation would be performed during Markdown rendering or
a single sanitization pass, but this is currently an unresolved issue:

  - vmg/redcarpet#720
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