Bug 197537 – Add a tool to block spammer accounts

• Component: Tools / Tests
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Add a command line tool to block accounts and hide their bugs and comments.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Created attachment 368853 [details]
proposed patch

I'm not much of a Python programmer, but trying.

[Simon Fraser (smfr)]

Can't this just be a button in the Bugzlla user account editing UI?

[Lucas Forschler]

It could possible be a Bugzilla extension.
https://www.bugzilla.org/docs/4.4/en/html/api/Bugzilla/Extension.html

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

It can if someone else writes the Perl code to do that. But that would be per account, and not in bulk like the tool supports.

I personally wouldn't be using such a button, as getting all the way to the user edit page is more effort than pasting a list of e-mails into command line.

[Darin Adler]

(In reply to Alexey Proskuryakov from comment #4)
> getting all the way to the
> user edit page is more effort than pasting a list of e-mails into command
> line.

My thought exactly.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Committed revision 244943.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

To be fair, there are potential benefits to a server side implementation:

- Can use it from devices that don't have command line.

- Can be restricted to a custom group, so we could make more people spam fighters.