Reporting spam

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Ivan Vučica

5 months ago

Is there a way to report spam?

Looks to me like one "review" here might qualify as spam:

https://www.ohloh.net/p/gimp/reviews

A bit offtopic:

They're also password-protecting and selling GFDL-licensed text; IANAL so I can't tell if that's legal. I do believe at least one provision is probably violated, 4. I:

Preserve the section Entitled "History", Preserve its Title, and add to it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If there is no section Entitled "History" in the Document, create one stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified Version as stated in the previous sentence.

Observe their Table of Contents.

http://www.welloiledpc.com/Reports/GIMP%202.6%20User%20Manual%20ToC.pdf

Not having history is probably important, since they "corrected" some stuff. Also, they're not including GFDL with the "sample chapter" (section 6 of GFDL).

Again, IANAL, but this seems like it might be GFDL violation, and an advertisement, masquerading as a review.


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Robin Luckey

5 months ago

Hi Ivan,

I don't doubt that this is spam; I agree that it is just an advertisement masquerading as a review.

We implemented the "helpful/not helpful" buttons as a hedge against spam. We could go one step further and actually conceal reviews that reach a certain number of "not helpful" clicks -- it's still a feature-in-progress.

I hesitate to put on my dictator's cap and summarily delete content from the site, unless it really becomes obnoxious. I'd be happy to hear how others feel about this.