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sr #107789: How to remove bogus replies to News items?

Submitter:  Steve White <Stevan_White>
Submitted:  Tue 06 Sep 2011 02:32:17 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Savannah website Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  4 - Important Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
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Wed 14 Sep 2011 10:22:30 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Much better.  Thanks!

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Tue 13 Sep 2011 06:06:05 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Hi Steve -- as I wrote somewhere else, the spam stuff that exists is about comments on tracker items, rather than news.  there is no way for you as project admin to do anything about news comments :(.

anyway, i have deleted all the replies to your news posts, and thousands more besides.  the ui for replies to news is also gone to prevent it from continuing to happen.

thanks for reporting it.

karl

p.s. savannah admins: for the notes i wrote as i was going through this pain, see http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SqlQueries.

Karl Berry <karl>
Site Administrator
Wed 07 Sep 2011 10:24:22 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Further attempts:

The Cookbook topic "Fighting span"
    https://savannah.gnu.org/cookbook/?func=detailitem&comingfrom=1405&item_id=140
says at the time when logged-in male user sees content that in his belief system is spam, he is able to "flag it as spam".

Well I'm logged in, and I'm male, and I am seeing it, and I truly do believe with all my heart that it is spam.  Yet...

This document goes into some detail about policies and algorithms, but doesn't say what the heck a male such as I must do to "flag" something as spam.  It gives me assurance as to my ability, but no instruction.  Is this a test of some kind?

Just how is this flagging accomplished by the user?

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Tue 06 Sep 2011 02:32:17 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,

I just noticed, people have been making junk replies on the FreeFont News items for some time.

Look, for example, at the end of
https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6518

I can't figure out how to delete them or hide them, or how to not-publish them or whatever I'm supposed to do.  I want these things gone.


The User Docs: In-Depth Guide,
under News, says:

From the Administration->News menu, you will be able to set news notification. However, news management (approval/deletion) is done through the Public->News menu. The News management link will only be visible if you are logged in as the project administrator. Before being published, news must be approved first by project admin.

I don't know what this means.

There's "Edit Public Info" under Main... but no...

OK maybe it means, to log out and look at it as a non-admin user, but... no...

TIA!

Steve White <Stevan_White>

 

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