Ashley Yakeley wrote: > There has been a lot of spam on HaskellWiki. Since anonymous edits have > been switched off, a spammer tactic has been to create hundreds of > accounts to evade individual account blocks. > > To combat this, I have > > 1. deleted all user accounts that have made no edits; > 2. switched off account creation; > 3. blocked at least some of the remaining spam accounts. > > This is obviously not ideal, as there is now no way for new users to > edit the wiki. I will investigate appropriate ways to allow account > creation.
Maybe it could help to restrict the account creation rate per IP? For example, every IP may only create one account per 12 hours. Regards, apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
