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Re: [RFC] Spam on the glibc wiki.
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell at mentor dot com>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "Schwinge, Thomas"<Thomas_Schwinge at mentor dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:11:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Spam on the glibc wiki.
- References: <5006BE19.1080603@mentor.com> <201207181033.12842.vapier@gentoo.org>
On 7/18/2012 10:33 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 July 2012 09:46:01 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> I'm looking for any recommendations on how to shut out the spammers
>> from the wiki.
>
> same suggestion as i posted when the kernel.org wiki was having this problem:
> add a poor man's captcha.
>
> <tr>
> <td>
> What color is "white"? (The answer is: "white"):
> </td>
> <td>
> <input type="text" name="botcheck">
> </td>
> </tr>
> then have the server side reject the request if the botcheck field isn't
> "white"
>
> it won't stop human spammers (but the only way to combat that would be to make
> account registration a manual thing), but it should cut off the bots.
>
> i implemented this in the old bug tracker on busybox.net/uclibc.org, and it
> completely shut down automated spammers (and i never saw a human spam).
> -mike
>
Doesn't Moinmoin have text captcha support?
Maybe that's easy to turn on?
Cheers,
Carlos.
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