DITA.XML.org Recent Content 100% Spam

["Bob Doyle" <bobdoyle@skybuilders.com>]

Hi Carol,

This morning all the recent content entries have been spammed.

• Research Triangle Park DUG
  (10 min 33 sec ago)
  1 reply
• Bright Path Solutions
  (2 hours 22 min ago)
  1 reply
• Information Mapping
  ( 2 hours 38 min ago)
  1 reply
• DITA: An XML-based Technical Documentadon Authoring and Publishing Architecture.
  (2 hours 39 min ago)
  1 reply
• DITA Language Specification
  (2 hours 42 min ago)
  1 reply 1 new
• Vasont
  (2 hours 46 min ago)
  1 reply 1 new

Worse still, how many nodes have been spammed that can now only be found and removed by patient analysis?

Since patient analysis is what search engines are designed to do, this insures that DITA.XML.org will be rated very poorly by those engines that recognize spam (unless we go find and remove all the spam)

I do not believe this is a fundamental flaw of the Drupal toolset, but rather how that tool is being managed.

Nevertheless, past discussions in the Ed Board, notably Su-Laine's suggestions that MediaWiki is far superior at this aspect of reporting recently changed content, should prompt a review of whether OASIS has the proper tool and strategy.

Bob.

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