Event-spam fighting

We recently had some event spam. This time it wasn't event-adding, which was well-covered, but event-editing, which was not. Changes included much better tracking of event edits and their associated metadata. And when members are caught spamming, ever event they edited will fall to the same sanctions as the events they added, lists they added, etc.

You can see who edited an event when you edit the event (e.g., https://www.librarything.com/local_add_v2.php?event=3028221 ). Here's what it looks like:


I'm hoping this is enough. If it's not, I'll institute other measures, like stripping events of links and not showing user-added events to non-signed in members for 1 hour.

Hi Tim; that link seems to need a password? It sounds, though, like a useful tool.

athena's their internal server. Just replace it with www and it should work.

Sorry. Fixed.

Yay! Finally.

How do we deal with these edited events? I had a few local ones crop up, all spamified by the same now-suspended user. But they're still spammy now, with no clear way to undo the damage.

Hmmm. Send me the example? They should go.

The current four:
https://www.librarything.com/local_add.php?event=3032106
https://www.librarything.com/local_add.php?event=3027569
https://www.librarything.com/local_add.php?event=3032112
https://www.librarything.com/local_add.php?event=3027567

That said, there should be a standard operating procedure for this kind of thing.

>8 AnnaClaire:

Yeah. No, I'm trying to figure out what went wrong in their not being deleted.

Good. Okay, I figured it out. It won't happen again.