On 22/01/14 04:48, Jeff Kelley wrote:
At 12:46 AM +0000 22/1/14, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
2/ Spam is high. How can we help?
I know there are all kinds of tools for trying to control spam (captchas, etc.)
but
these haven't worked well in the past. I don't think there's any way we can go
back to automatic user account creation - it just allows too much spam.
Clearly, we are target of a bot. Antibot pretends to be able to fight XRumer.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Spam_management_extensions
At the moment, I'm thinking that perhaps having a moderation queue for
new user accounts fronted by some basic OpenSimulator questions
What about moderating the first edit and whitelist? It's far more difficult for
a bot to submit a relevant edit than
decide if opensim is a cat or a server.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WhiteList
Yes, it might be too much to ask for someone to go through a list of potential accounts and consistently spot bot names
(though they do tend to stick out like a sore thumb).
Perhaps something like this combined with simple questions on account creation to provide a second line of defense.
Getting complicated, though.
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Justin Clark-Casey (justincc)
OSVW Consulting
http://justincc.org
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