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New report reason: Username similar to link text #9989

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fastnlight0 opened this issue Jan 29, 2024 · 1 comment
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New report reason: Username similar to link text #9989

fastnlight0 opened this issue Jan 29, 2024 · 1 comment
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area: spamchecks Detections or the process of testing posts. (No space in the label, is because of Hacktoberfest) type: enhancement Improvements which don't reach the level of being new features.

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It would help catch more spam

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SD should report posts where the text of a link is similar to a user's name, as that is almost always a sign of spam.
Post example (Username: Cool Spam Service, imagine the link went to a spam site instead of SO):

Your problem can be solved easily Cool Spam Service with recursion...

We would want to catch these and give them a higher score. This is different from URL similar to username, as some companies' website doesn't always include their username (MS example)

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CoconutMacaroon commented Jan 29, 2024

Looking at findspam.py, there's this function that contains some code that could be used to extract link text from a post. Specifically, this line finds link text within the string s.

links = regex.compile(r'nofollow(?: noreferrer)?">([^<]*)(?=</a>)', regex.UNICODE).findall(s)

I.e.,

>>> import regex
>>> s = '<a href="google.com" rel="nofollow">Test</a>'
>>> links = regex.compile(r'nofollow(?: noreferrer)?">([^<]*)(?=</a>)', regex.UNICODE).findall(s)
>>> links
['Test']

There's another function here that seems to check similarity, and that's used in the "username similar to website" rule. Lastly, there's also a wiki page on adding spam checks/rules.

If this is something that's a good idea to add, I can take an attempt at making a PR implementing this change.

@CoconutMacaroon CoconutMacaroon added area: spamchecks Detections or the process of testing posts. (No space in the label, is because of Hacktoberfest) type: enhancement Improvements which don't reach the level of being new features. labels Jan 29, 2024
@CoconutMacaroon CoconutMacaroon self-assigned this Jan 31, 2024
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