You don't have spam because nixos.org has pagerank 5, which makes it attractive to spammers in a way that humans are paid to enter spam links.
Your site has pagerank of 0. On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Marc Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > Eelco: Have a look at vim-wiki.mawercer.de I have not yet had any spam. > and if it happens its as easy as git revert. There is *no* password > protection at all. You just have to use special ?get parameter. > I know the design is not that pretty, its just a hack so that I don't > have to type and talk about the same topics again. Maybe its also much > less popular than nixos.org/wiki ... > > I seriously think that bots (or humans?) are specialized on media wiki. > I think the real fix is using non standard wikis or doing anything > non-standard, such as protecting login page by htaccess and dummy password. > Something simple such as 'nixonixo' would probably be enough and more > effective than captchas. If irc knowns about it .. > > Me too thinks that its bad to host spam. Additional alternatives such as > github wiki has been discussed. And they are options, too. > You can also access those git repositories easily. > > The community is strong enough to handle this. We just have to make a > list of features we want and we must get started. > > Some additional discussions took place on this mailinglist earlier. > How much spam does exist? Click the random page 10 times, then you'll > know. > > click1: Multi-level Marketing Two Schools Of Believed Collide > click2: Women's Manner Trend Principles To Stay By > click3: Ageing Tips That Can Help You In The Process > click4: Meet The Equipment Shop Manager > click5: Picking out Straightforward Advice For beauty salon insurance > > I'm stopping here, you get it, all 5 pages are spam. > > I'm protecting against arbitrary spammers by adding a 1x1 px input spam > bots are likely to fill, but humans miss. Thus if such a field is non > empty I can disregard the request. > > The wiki is one of the weakest parts of this project. > People spend their time on the libraries, packages and the core instead > mostly. > > Marc Weber > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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