Fair enough. It just makes pygame look bad/abandoned when spam sits around in the documentation for weeks/months on end.
How about the middle ground of automatic filtering using Akismet. There is a Python module [1] and apparently someone wrote a Django plugin [2]. I've been using it in my Wordpress blog with no false positives and less than 1% false negatives for the last year. [1]: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#akismet [2]: http://sciyoshi.com/blog/2008/aug/27/using-akismet-djangos-new-comments-framework/ Nirav On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:24 PM, René Dudfield<ren...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Nirav Patel <o...@spongezone.net> wrote: >> >> One solution to comment spam is to just use recaptcha on anonymous >> comments. It'll at least remove bot spam and make it more annoying >> for repeat human spammers. >> >> Nirav > > I think comments have more value than allowing some spam in some times. In > this case removing barriers for people to comment (like captcha, required > login etc) gives us more comments. Each barrier reduces the number of valid > comments. > > Then every now and then the spam comments can easily be removed. I think > this will be the 3rd spam cleanup in 5 years, so it's not much of an issue. > The spam comments don't even have clickable links in them, so it doesn't > matter so much at all. > > > cheers, >
