I'm seeing an increasing number of spam events

[tfmpoc]

howdy:

I figure you're already aware of this but thought I'd report it just in case.

I'm seeing an increasing number of spam events on Calagator. Here are two of them from today:

• https://calagator.org/events/1250478238
• https://calagator.org/events/1250478239

One of them is an invitation to online gambling. The other I assume is porn-oriented. They just don't seem like the kind of thing that should clutter up my calendar. One reason I suspect they're related is that every such event I've seen has the tags "bioscience, portland, digital health".

Is there something you can do about these? I don't know if they even break any kind of Calagator rule. But perhaps you can at least enforce the tagging?

Thanks!

to'c

[carrythebanner]

Bump — there's been a real burst of spam events in the last couple days, dozens at a time. Right now they're all being created for the current day, so it really gums up the ability to browse upcoming events. They're also using real locations and real tags, so it's difficult to avoid them no matter how you browse events.

Additional guardrails to keep spam out would be great, but in the meantime, are there any options for bulk deletion? I manually deleted a few dozen myself, but it's tedious without a way to edit en masse.

[carrythebanner]

The recent batch of spam uses consistent links and terms — made PR #67 to add those to the banlist.

[genewildish]

same: http://calagator.org/events/1250479808