I installed Scuttle a few weeks ago to take my bookmarks online. I logged in for the first time in ages and discovered I’ve been spammed. I’ve had hundreds of user registrations and a bunch of links submitted. After a little database cleansing the spam has now been removed and the registration closed. No more Scuttle spam I say.
Callum Macdonald
Callum on life
Callum, how do you close the registration? thanks
I deleted the registration PHP file, or maybe renamed it. I couldn’t see any options to disable it via a setting so I killed that file and the spam disappeared.
Thanks Callum
Done!
How did you delete the users? How did you delete their bookmarks?
Wow, it was such a long time ago I don’t remember what I did now. There’s probably a way to delete it all automatically. I’m the only user on my install, so maybe something like delete all bookmarks where user id > 1.
Thanks, what are you using now for bookmarks?
I’m still using scuttle here. I ripped out the signup files and that killed the spam. I see there was new code released in March, I’ll check it out at some point and consider upgrading. I had offered to take over the scuttle project a couple of years back, but no response from the author. It seems somebody’s active now which is good news.
Use it all the time, the firefox addon is great!
Would love to see it as a module for drupal
Interesting, I haven’t used the Firefox plugin. I use the bookmarklet which looks about the same.
Right click and “scuttle this page” gives you a popup and the ability to tag, label and set to private/ public, I guess its all the same