On 6/27/18, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > > The problem there is spam. >
Captchas and requiring moderator approval of wiki edits and new tickets goes a long way toward fixing the spam problem. Another more important reason why I turned off anonymous tickets is that the signal-to-noise ratio was just too low. An overwhelming majority of tickets were really support requests and/or new feature requests. There were very few actual bugs reported by tickets. If a feature request comes in via ticket, I can either leave the ticket open for some future date when I might implement the idea, or I can close it immediately as "not a bug". If I leave it open, then people become alarmed at all the open bugs against Fossil. If I close it right away, people misunderstand that as rejecting the idea. Either way, users end up feeling unhappy. In my experience, the mailing list is a much better mechanism for dealing with community input. Ideas get expressed and debated, but I am under less pressure to pick sides or to take immediate action on marginal ideas. Hopefully the new Forum feature with email notification might work out even better than the mailing list. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
