Most of us are aware of how bad is the situation with constant spamming on localize.drupal.org. As these thousands of unwanted comments are posted by sleeping agent user accounts, the third-party PerimeterX service DA contracted has no or minimal effect against them.
Therefore sometimes (every 3–4 months on average) I get stressed by the situation enough to spend some time and clean them up manually. (As I have the privilege to access the /admin/content/comment listing page.)
However, it's a Sisyphean job as spammers probably utilize some sort of automated tools to post.
Go to the page 60 or 61 of the list when spams were cleaned up last time. 50 comments per page × 60 page = cca. 3000 spam messages.
A suggestion assumingly relatively easy to implement: add an extra “Author” field to the filtering options on this /admin/content/comment listing page. Based on the presumption that users registered on Drupal.org are either spammers or legit drupalists (and probably not both at the same time) such selection criteria of comments submitted would extremely increase the effectiveness of the fight against them.
Discuss, decide, implement.
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It's likely this issue predates Contrib.social: some issue and comment data are missing.
Worth doing for sure. We're getting pretty close to doing the D10 upgrade on localize thanks to community support, I'm not sure I want to duplicate the work, so I'm probably going to add this to our list for after that upgrade.