On Wednesday, October 14th, 2026 at 4:17 AM, Arsen Arsenović via Gcc <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jonathan Wakely <[email protected]> writes: > > >> On the Gentoo side, we have had similar problems but it's not too > >> bad. We have a Bugzilla extension [0] which bans URLs from new accounts for > >> 24 hours: we could possibly bring that over here but exempt some > >> sites like stackoverflow, standard reference sites, and godbolt. > > > > If we had that extension than I'd be happy to re-enable account > > registration. I don't think spammers would bother waiting 24h and > > coming back to post their links. > > > >> Another option would be to implement moderation in Bugzilla [1] which both > >> Bugzilla instances would benefit from. IMO neither of these should be > >> blockers to begin with, and we can revisit as we go if it turns out to > >> not work out. > > > > Allowing moderation so that bugs and comments from new accounts aren't > > visible until approved would be great, but I agree that doesn't need > > to be a blocker. > > I do think blocking URLs from new accounts should be considered a > > blocker though. > > I agree with Jonathan here, we should at least block URLs, and that > should be fairly easy to do. I reckon we should whitelist godbolt.org, compiler-explorer.com, and eel.is at minimum. We obviously can't maintain an exhaustive list but at least the common ones that are likely to go in bug reports. > > As I mentioned in Prague, bug reports going missed due to registration > requirements is not insignificant, so IMO we should do this change ASAP. > -- > Arsen Arsenović > Just cosigning this sentiment, I have had to offer to post bugs for other people because of it. Alex
