On Tuesday, Oct 28, 2003, at 13:10 Europe/Rome, Steven Noels wrote:
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We have seen similar abuse on the Cocoon wiki as well. Rather than completely offload the burden of moderation to a bunch of people, we should come up with an upfront facility for blocking automated abuse. Similar to the facilities found in MSN Hotmail, Paypal and others who use some generated image to validate sign up for their system, having something like this Sapience thing might reduce the moderation burden in the long run.
It's cool for sure, but it might be some good way to make sure only humans edit content, and not a bunch of malevolent bots.
That is a *very good point* and I think you are perfectly right: we should put it into Doco. Any idea on how to do it?
I spent an afternoon implementing it. It's a complicated beast, and it uses the intercepted flowscript in a big huge ugly hack... BUT... it works, which makes me happy :) Check it out at [1] -- please go easy on it since this is my personal box at home and on my cablemodem. I will clean it up and add it to the samples once I get my CVS problems straightened out.
[1] http://tinyurl.com/ss9z
-- Stefano.
Regards,
Tony
