[PD] Pdpedia spam

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> If you switch to forcing users to register in order to edit, then you  
> get spam bots creating user accounts, which are harder to delete.  So  
> far, it does not take much work to delete the spam using the  
> mediawiki admin tools ("delete", "protect", "watch", etc.)  I am  
> pretty sure that is how it is done on wikipedia.

not being a very active wikipedia user, i nevertheless seem to remember
that they use captchas (yes indeed) for verification if (and only if- i
think) you are adding URLs to a page.
this makes spamming sites much less attractive.

i know that you are opposed to captchas, but i still think it is a good
compromise between not having to create accounts and a reasonable
protection against spam.


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