1253048 - User is trapped in spam filter

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org :: Security, defect)

Description

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

We have a user who tried to create a page but it got flagged as spam. I've tried creating the page for them, and making a bunch of edits, marking them all as ham:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/external-media-tests

This doesn't seem to help, they are still not able to edit the page.

Comment 1

[April King [:April]]

:wbamberg: Are there any actual security issues here?  This just seems like a functional problem.  I'd like to remove Security-Sensitive if not.

Thanks!

Comment 2

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

April, I don't know. We've historically been marking all the MDN spam bugs security-sensitive (e.g. bug 1109994 and its dependents), but I don't know if that's really necessary. I suppose the idea is that we don't want to give out too much information about what we are doing to fight spam.

Comment 3

[April King [:April]]

Fair enough.  It's not a big deal either way, I just try to have these things be open when I can.  :)

Thanks!

Comment 4

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

We've made a lot of changes to the spam detection and training code (Akismet integration), now public in the kuma repository. Marking this as resolved.