On 10/11/13 03:57, Nathan Larson wrote: > Also, we have other antispam tools that are way more effective than > nofollow at deterring spam.
Like what? AbuseFilter is unusable for small wikis, SpamBlacklist is poorly maintained, and FancyCaptcha is comprehensively broken -- we have had reports of sites with FancyCaptcha being spammed to death. Pretty much any captcha can be broken for $1.39 per 1000. You wouldn't need very many impressions per edit for that to be economical. > Also, well-designed search engines should have other measures > too for sorting out what's spammy. Sure, they do have such measures, but after years of incremental development, the measures were clearly not working, which is why Google introduced nofollow. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
