Spam comments in wiki personal spaces

[burke (Burke Mamlin)]

@michael

These happen because Confluence’s default (which can’t be changed) is to allow anonymous comments on personal spaces. We also don’t have any feeds of comments in personal spaces, so there’s no easy way to track them when they appear. And there’s also no way to bulk-delete these comments.

There are some workarounds. I added a comment to this page. Please vote for CONF-27555.

[michael (Michael Downey)]

Thanks, I’ve added a vote. Sadly the workaround seems to only be applicable for existing spaces, and not new ones.

[surangak (Suranga Kasthurirathne)]

Gents, @sunbiz and I considered doing this manually as a GCI task, but its not going to work because ordinary wiki users (such as the GCI students) won’t have permissions to delete comments from other users personal spaces

[michael (Michael Downey)]

I am pretty sure we can grant delete comments permission to specific users.

[surangak (Suranga Kasthurirathne)]

Awesome. That would work. Other than the page that you pointed to, do we have any other specific pages that you’ve already found that needs this treatment ?

[michael (Michael Downey)]

It’s rather hard to find these, but one could search for some of the spam terms (which I won’t mention here) to try to find them.