On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:10:56AM -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote: > The amount of vandalism to the gnashdev wiki has been increasing a bit > over the past couple of weeks, and I've been blocking accounts and > nuking spam pages in a seeming game of whack-a-mole. I think it might > be helpful for us to implement more safeguards to make it harder for > spammers to mess up the wiki. > > One easy fix, as there are relatively few new legitimate users each > month, would be to simply require new users to email > "[email protected]" to get an account. We could just restrict > access to the create-a-new-account page[1], and post the registration > email address as an image (to prevent it being harvested for spam). > There are probably other ways we can reduce the amount of wiki spam we > get, but this seems quick and easy.
Seems like a good idea to me. Also, it'd be a good idea to give privileges back to all hackers. --strk; () Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer /\ http://strk.keybit.net/services.html _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
