Just have a moderator have to approve of all new users before they can post or have it set up so they can post in only one forum for a few posts.
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Stephanie Watson <s...@foresightlinux.org>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
