On 12.02.2010 08:43, Jorrit Tyberghein wrote: > You may be aware or not but we're having a lot of problems with spam on > the CS site. > We tried captcha's but apparently these are now being solved > automatically so that > is no longer a solution. So we think that at this moment the best > solution will be > a moderation system so that before a new account is accepted a moderator > must > first approve it. It is annoying and will slow down bug reporting by new > users > but I see no other way :-(
This isn't a "new" idea - for example, VLC does it that way already for a while (http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/). But yes, it will be annoying. Do you already know how the moderation system will work? > In addition to the moderation we also need to get rid of all current > spam users that > are already in the system. To do that I propose that we start clean. > Everyone who has > an account on the CS site that he wants to keep can send me a mail. > These accounts > will NOT be deleted. ALL other accounts will be deleted at the end of > this month. Please keep mine - 'res' ;p If there is a way to see what/how much a user has contributed we could probably get a good heuristic on what are spammers and what not - most spam account made only one contribution on a "User Talk:" page. If it's feasible and easy to filter by that the cleanup could be more conservative and retain more legitimate user accounts without everyone having to speak up. -f.r.
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