Hi Josh On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 02:20 -0400, Joshua Miller wrote: > Is there a reason the home page can be modified by anyone sans-registration > and sans-approval?
I guess it was to lower the barrier to editing. > I noticed some spam links were added, and removed them. It's easy enough to > remove, but seems like some sort of protection wouldn't hurt (email address > registration with captcha, or require manual approval of changes or of > users?). It probably doesn't matter a whole lot, since it has low traffic > and a small dedicated group. Just felt a bit weird that it was so easy to > modify. Thanx for doing that. IIRC the topic of registration has come up before, a long time ago. My browser just hangs when I click on the link in the email. Perhaps that's the result of the attack /or/ the defense. Don't know. > If the ease of modification (no registration) was shown to actually increase > participation significantly, then it'd make sense.... but I don't see much > activity on the site anyway. Agreed. > This is almost 100% a third party opinion, cause I normally just lurk on > this list, but if I were wanting to actively contribute, I'd personally have > no problem registering and would not be offended if the registration had to > be manually reviewed before I could modify pages. I contribute to the list but have no access to the software behind the site. I have no problem with registration. It does not have to be before the event (of editing). A neat type of captcha uses a mathematical equation (7+2) which robots won't be expecting, as a barrier. > Anyway... thank you to whomever does provide valuable content on the site > and this list :-) :-) -- Ron Savage http://savage.net.au/ Ph: 0421 920 622 ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
