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Username Blocking/Banning on paste.o.o

Added by sfalken@cloverleaf-linux.org 8 days ago. Updated 7 days ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
hellcp
Category:
Paste
Target version:
-
Start date:
2025-04-10
Due date:
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0%

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Description

Since I've been working on flagging and removing the spam on paste.o.o,
I've been seeing some recurring usernames attached to many of the spam
posts, and they only post spam. I know that it's easy enough for
them to just switch local usernames, if they're using a tool like
susepaste, but is there a mechanism within paste.o.o to just reject
posts from the username "Rubenroalp" for instance?

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 #1

Updated by crameleon 7 days ago

  • Category set to Paste
  • Private changed from Yes to No

I don't think such a mechanism exists in paste-o-o.

I have a script which runs every once in a while removing pastes with titles which are known to be offending, I can probably extend it to also do that for authors. Though it is a bit ugly for good users because if a legitimate paste is posted, it will appear to just randomly disappears before the set expiry instead of already being rejected already upon submission.

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 #2

Updated by crameleon 7 days ago

  • Assignee set to hellcp

I added authors handling to ~paste/bin/nuke_bad_patterns.rb now with "Rubenroalp" being the first entry.

@hellcp to tell if there's a better way.

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 #3

Updated by sfalken@cloverleaf-linux.org 7 days ago

Works for me, lets just see what it does with that one username for now.

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 #4

Updated by hellcp 7 days ago

Yeah, moderation on paste-o-o is relatively limited, I might have a look at extending the capabilities a little bit

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