[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Bugs-1942204 ] pdpedia Captcha

[marius schebella]

zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:
> Quoting "SourceForge.net" <noreply at sourceforge.net>:
> 
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>> including the initial issue submission, for this request,
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>> Category: pdpedia
>>> Status: Closed
>>> Resolution: Invalid
>> Submitted By: oli44 (oli44)
>> Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>> Summary: pdpedia Captcha
>>
>>
>> Any admin can easily delete those junk posts with the 'delete' tab and
>> also protect problem pages.  A captcha might help, I haven't seen one for
>> mediawiki before.
> 
> a captcha will help in about 97% probably even more (this is just a  
> wild guess)
> 
>> Check the "recent changes" log now, and you'll see the spam is gone. :)
> 
> hmm, your approach seems to deal with the problem but does nothing to  
> prevent it.
> what will happen when the next attack starts?
> will we just have to wait for "any admin" to "easily delete those junk  
> posts" again?
> 
> as far as i recall, when pdpedia was installed there was some  
> consensus about using captchas when a spamming problem would appear.
> are there any technical or organisatorial problems in using them?
> (it seems like you have some reasons against using captchas, but you  
> haven't told us yet)

I think we even agreed that in a case when sites get spammed, that only 
registered users were allowed to edit pages. I still would recommend 
that, I think then we don't need captchas.
marius.