On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 13:41, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Wednesday 11 February 2004 21:37, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > These are real live people doing the spamming edits, not robots. > > Hm, I think it is about time to start lobbying for laws to make this > finable, so that it is possible to stop this early, because it has the > potential of destroying wikis... > > Best, > > Kjetil
Legislation has so far shown to be ineffective in controlling the net. Let's neither assume that it will be in the future, nor expect it to be. We have the freedom of speech here on the net in an unprecedented level. Let's not now expect some legislative body to now restrict that. I believe that the original WIKI has had some similar problems. One of the solutions is to implement a simple rollback so that the users can revert to the pre-graffiti version easily. This would include IP tracking for the changes, so the reversion would back up, or atleast have the possibility of backing up prior to all the changes made by that IP address. It is not nearly as attractive to the graffiti kiddies if their spam can be easily removed. Another possibility would be to have accounts as a method of signing the changes. This does have the controversial effect of excluding anyone who does not wish to make an account, or those that would prefer to remain anonymous. This has both pros and cons. Another possible deterrent would be to display the time and IP address of the last changes with the signature(s) if they were available. The idea here is that the script kiddies would not wish to have their identity or IP address known. tends to wierd them out. Robert Ferney --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
