On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Mark Lentczner <ma...@glyphic.com> wrote: > On Oct 10, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote: >> I'm worried about spam accounts being featured on >> the homepage. Real Haskeller is not meant to be exclusive, it's a >> minimal level of oversight by the admins. > > A more common approach to the problem of spam accounts -- which is very real > -- is to not allow accounts to appear before they have been vetted by an > admin. Allowing accounts to appear on the site as they are created will, > sooner or later, result in the site being over run with spam faster than you > can keep up. > > For the community site I help run (http://www.contextfreeart.org/) had this > problem a while back and we switched to all accounts being vetted. We use > http://www.stopforumspam.com/ as source of information to easily help us make > that determination.
That may very well be the direction we need to take it. For the moment, since spam has *not* been a problem yet, I've erred on the side of being too liberal. But if necessary, I can convert the "real Haskeller" status to indicate whether an account is shown at all or not. However, this may never be necessary: I'm not sure how much it bothers me that a spam account could appear at the very bottom of the search listings. And the feeling on this list seems to be for *less* admin control, not more. But as I said, all options such as this are in reserve. Michael _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
