I agree with Mickael that the situation is not good for an open community. Manual moderation does not scale and it is an extra wall for contributing.
Wasn't there is a captcha mechanism in place which prevents robots from registering accounts? Can we please prioritize the work to get the account sign-up fixed so that only humans can sign up? -Gunnar -- Gunnar Wagenknecht [email protected], http://guw.io/ > On 12 Nov 2016, at 17:49, Daniel Megert <[email protected]> wrote: > > The spam wasted at least half an hour of my time every day, so "NO", the spam > must not come back. NO WAY! > > If you feel good about the spam I suggest you sign up as moderator for the > new accounts. > > Dani > > > > From: Mickael Istria <[email protected]> > To: Cross project issues <[email protected]> > Date: 12.11.2016 17:07 > Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] Are restrictions on Bugzilla worse > than spam? > Sent by: [email protected] > > > > TL;DR: Bugzilla restrictions block new contributors - that's worse than spam. > Hi all, > > A few weeks ago, because of a spam attack, access to bugzilla and ability to > report bugs and comment on bugs for new members was restricted. New members > now have to ask webmasters to be whilelisted and allowed to interact with the > community. > > I've got some colleague who just registered and tried to contribute and > totally failed at it. The message about asking webmasters for whilelist > wasn't visible enough apparently so they didn't realize it was necessary and > just ended up with an account which seem unusable to them. So I had to > forward messages in their name: > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=506244#c19 > <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=506244#c19> > Moreover, in that case, we're speaking about someone working on week-ends and > is ready to contribute on week-ends, and I don't expect webmasters to > promptly react to whilelisting request on week-ends. So even if the user > would have sent a mail, it could have requested days to be processed. > If I had not been there to assist my colleague in contributing, he'd just had > given up. And I'm pretty sure that several other people have given up > contributing since the introduction of this "ask for permission" rule. > > So IMO, the current state is by far worse than having spam. It makes the > community more difficult to join for new subscribers and appear more closed > than it is. A lot of effort were done in the past to "reduce barriers" from > users to contributors, and this Bugzilla thing goes to the opposite direction. > Can we please have spam and new contributors again? And then consider > approaches that have worked for other tools to avoid spam? I don't get why > bugs.eclipse.org would be the only service for which reCaptcha wouldn't > work... > > Cheers, > > -- > Mickael Istria > Eclipse developer for Red Hat Developers <http://developers.redhat.com/> > My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com/> - My Tweets > <http://twitter.com/mickaelistria>_______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev > <https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev> > > > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev >
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