Aleksey, I would agree that checking the user agent is not the best idea. I'd go for a more conventional spam-prevention technique, like making the user do a simple arithmetic problem. Just as long as its enough to discourage spammers but not annoying to commenters.
James Simmons On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Aleksey Lim <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 05:37:49PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Jim Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: >> > My guess is that we get few reviews because you need to create an >> > account on ASLO before you can do it. A normal Activity user has no >> > other use for such an account. If you could post a review without >> > logging in perhaps more people would do it. >> >> If the Browse user agent string is present, we could allow posting a >> review without logging in. (Maybe even use the user's Sugar Nick if >> that is available to the server) >> >> I bet that would be enough to stop casual spam, but I don't know how >> much work it would take to implement on the ASLO side. > > do you mean sugar <=> aslo account integration > or just checking useragent string for spam detecting? > (if sugar will be so popular and spammers will use sugarized useragent > string, we won't change useragent too fast :) > >> > I'd love to see more reviews of my own Activities, even really >> > negative ones. I've gotten some pretty good download numbers but >> > without feedback the numbers don't seem real to me. >> >> Yeah, same here. >> >> Best, >> Wade >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > -- > Aleksey > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
