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Re: [RFC] Spam on the glibc wiki.
On 07/18/2012 04:15 PM, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
Closing is one option - don't allow new accounts, create them manually if
needed.
This works if we know who is requesting a new account. But what's to
prevent Bob McBobberson from asking for a new account and then using
it to spam the wiki?
>
I encountered this with another wiki I contributed to at one point and
the perpetrator was actually an SEO company out of India that paid
individuals to manually create wiki accounts and spam the wikis. We
ended up closing down registration to only people we knew.
We have only a few contributors to the wiki, so we could really give
only accounts to those that seem genuine and have shown previous
contribution, e.g. an email on libc-alpha etc...
I would consider that for some time and trying to lift the restriction to
see whether we're still under attack,
Yeah, it's better than nothing.
Andreas
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