Fwiw, the spam users seem to have been curbed significantly since early April. I have put a lot of blockers in place. It still doesn't stop people from trying, though, and doesn't end the problem altogether. I purged all the spam accounts with 0 posts yesterday, and yes there was a thousand or so of them. If you think it's still too much of a hassle, though, I'm ready to hand over my responsibilities to others for maintaining something else.
-Stef On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Martin Bähr < mba...@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > hi, > > after reading todays discussion on our limited capacity to manage forums > because to many spam users sign up and it is extra work to monitor yet > another area the following two random ideas popped in my head: > > moderate forum registration: > don't allow spambots to sign up by requesting a verbal description of why > the user wants to join. or have them request a forum account in person > on irc. (this may not be worth the effort, but it would certainly help > cut down spam registrations) > > > can we turn the issue tracker into a forum? > after all most forum posts will be questions that need an answer from > devs, not sozialising. we would just need a simplified form that would > create an issue with a default priority and a category eg "user > question". > > this has a few advantages: > we can track all questions and make sure they get answers. > we can mark answered questions as done. > we can elevate questions that point to bugs to a real issue. > we can assign questions to the right person to answer. > if there is a public filter that can be linked to, people can browse the > questions. > users can see the status of a question, and thus have more assurance > that the answer solves the problem. > people should get used to browsing and using the issue tracker for issues > anyways. > any user can post to any issue already, thus a discussion like in a > forum is possible. > also, categories can be finetuned and be like a list of different > forums with different topics. > > this would make the forum more like a helpdesk, which in a way is is, i > think, and the difference from a helpdesk to an issue tracker is not > large, it's all just a question of appearance. > > greetings, martin. > -- > cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and > unix > searching contract jobs: programming, training and administration - > anywhere > -- > pike programmer working in china > community.gotpike.org > foresight developer (open-steam|caudium).org > foresightlinux.org > unix sysadmin iaeste.at > realss.com > Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ > is.schon.org > _______________________________________________ > Foresight-devel mailing list > Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org > http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel > -- Stephanie E. Watson 2010 Libertarian Candidate for NC Senate District 16 6720 Sandwell Ln #105 :: Raleigh, NC 27607 GoLiberty.net _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
