[PD] Pdpedia spam

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 19, 2008, at 5:51 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, that sounds like a great idea.  I think it is hard to argue  
with wikipedia's practice.

.hc

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> IOhannes







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