It seems like Sushmita Das (DSushmita) added multiple comments to Drupal core issues about the review process of security advisory coverage applications. These comments are commonly used in project applications issue queue , not on standard Drupal core issues.

It would be great if a site moderator can reach to this person and explain / talk about this, so that the person will stop posting such comments and changing statuses of issues in the Drupal core issue queue. Statuses should be potentially restored.

Here are the examples:

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3383348

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3383445

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3383521

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3383637

Thanks!

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poker10 created an issue. See original summary.

poker10’s picture

Seems like this was already communicated on Slack while I was creating the issue: https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C1BMUQ9U6/p1693209200705909

gisle’s picture

Title: Spammy behavior of Sushmita Das (DSushmita) » Trash content by Sushmita Das (DSushmita)

I wasn't able to see anything relevant following the link to Slack (but I must admit that I don't use Slack very often).

It would be great if a site moderator can reach to this person and explain / talk about this, so that the person will stop posting such comments and changing statuses of issues in the Drupal core issue queue.

The person don't have the "Contact" tab enabled, so she's uncontactable by most Site moderators (including me). I believe @apaderno and DA staff has the required access to send email to any user.

I've retracted her "Confirmed" role. If she shows up in the Site moderators' issue queue to complain about it, we can reach out to her here.

However, after looking these over I've started see some retractions ("Please ignore"), so she may already have realized that doing this is not such a good idea.

However, I'll keep an eye on the account, and assign @apaderno to reach out if she continues posting trash content.

Statuses should be potentially restored.

For the record: I've deleted those I've managed to find, and also restored the "Status" field. This means example links in the issue summary won't show the posts or changed statuses any more.

I've kept this one unpublished: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3383521 , just in case other site moderators want to see what they were like (the rest were identical),

PS: Technically, this is "Repetitive posting of trash content ", not "Spam", please see: See: https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/docs/maintenance/moderating-users for the terminology. Spamming results in an immediate blockage from a site moderator. Site moderators take a more gradual approach when a user is repeatedly posting trash content.

dqd’s picture

I already (kindly and carefully) talked to the user on Slack regarding these actions, explained the problem (as neutral as possible) see the quote below from Slack:

Sushmita Das wrote: - 11 hours ago ...
hello everyone.
I am new to this,
I think I have mistakenly commented on wrong issues.
Apologies for that.

diqidoq wrote: @Sushmita Das - Thanks for coming back explaining. But apart from that it has been mistakenly posted on wrong issues, I would kindly ask why you copy/paste the same text under a several bunch of issues? No offense, please do not feel any bad on my question. It's just to make sure that we all can prevent misunderstandings between each other while we try to contribute to the project. In the first moment it caused the impression you are part of the security advisory team, but after reviewing your profile on D.O. I realized that you are new to Drupal. We all appreciate the support and contribution of new Drupal users and contributors a lot! Feel free to ask somebody mentoring your way into Drupal contribution, if you like. Just try to prevent such copy/pasted advisory posts on newly started issues until you get the impression that the advisory is needed. And on some issues these advises are also partly wrong like here: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3383637#comment-15208328

And I invited the user to chime in here to elaborate and take a stand on this. I also recommended the user to take a look at Drupal mentoring so that other users could help such new users who are interested to become contributors to the project, to find their way into it. Of course I did it all in the assumption of the best intentions and a maybe "just helpless" new user. The user already deleted some of the comments which other users and Drupal contributors asked about if it has been posted mistakenly and the user apologized on Slack.

Time will tell ...

DSushmita’s picture

Hello,
First of all, I am extremely sorry for my actions.
I am a new user and wanted to contribute to Drupal. I got some confusion regarding the Drupal core and I posted the comment in the wrong way.
I sincerely apologize for that. I can assure you that next time I will be more careful during my contribution.

According to your recommendation, I will spend more time on "https://www.drupal.org/community/mentoring" before making further contributions.

I also looked for places to comment about ignoring my previous comment, but I couldn't find any more. It looks like it has already been removed.
let me know if I need to do anything else to correct this.

gisle’s picture

Status: Active » Fixed

User has stopped posting trash content and comment #5 above clearly shows that she understands that this was disruptive and will stop doing it.

I think there is nothing more the site moderators can do.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.