Re: [RFC] Spam on the glibc wiki.

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Wednesday 18 July 2012 11:11:30 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 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).
> 
> Doesn't Moinmoin have text captcha support?
> 
> Maybe that's easy to turn on?

maybe, but the reason i didn't recommend captcha is because automated nets are 
designed to look for & break captchas.  my suggestion "works" by virtue of 
obscurity -- no one else does this, which means the automated logic won't 
handle it.

i also generally hate captchas because i can't solve them half the @#! time ;)
-mike

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