New members flow: can we do spam detection in order to let new members in faster? about hackbot

[kern]

I like the idea of automating on-boarding into the Group. Facebook doesn't expose membership requests via the Graph API at the moment, so we'd have to implement this through a scraper.

Could this be a job for MegBot? @maruthven

[rubinovitz]

@kern This wasn't about automating onboarding. This was about making sure we catch any spammers we let in.

[rubinovitz]

If someone wants to build the scraper part that could be helpful though.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Alex Kern [email protected] wrote:

I like the idea of automating on-boarding into the Group. Facebook doesn't
expose membership requests via the Graph API at the moment, so we'd have to
implement this through a scraper.

Could this be a job for MegBot https://github.com/maruthven/megbot?
@maruthven https://github.com/maruthven

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[kern]

Ah, misunderstood the first point under possible solutions. Yeah, this looks possible just using the Graph API. I think a general spam-detection filter is simple, straightforward, and useful (we can use the sentiment filter for reference). We can grab the member's join date, and if it's within a fixed time-frame, automatically quiet ban the user if the spam filter flags them.