But then it was never about strange people, it was about professional coders making good money coding bots that can spam any account. Its a nasty business, but business non the less.
What is long over is the creation of malicious software just for the fun of it. Nowdays it has a very specific purpose, to make more money for people that have no hesitation to use any means possible to do so. On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 28 Nov 2013, at 15:13, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can tell you that the gimp wiki had such issue with loads of spam. Now > its open only for people who ask for an account there. But you can try it > and if it fails then you could give access only to people asking here in > the list. > > > Yes, the time of open wikis is over for a long time… there just so many > strange people. > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Benjamin < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Indeed :) >> >> Feel free to set it back then if you want :) >> >> Ben >> >> On 28 Nov 2013, at 14:12, Camille Teruel <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> On 28 nov. 2013, at 13:47, Benjamin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I do not know if this is really a good thing to allow anyone to edit the >> pages, >> moreover when one can have an account without any check :S >> >> >> I don't believe that malicious contributors are watching out for messing >> around in wiki pages. >> If ever there is one, we'll know who he is and we'll be able to revert >> the page. >> IMO people should be able to collaborate, that's why wikis exist after >> all. >> >> >> I added Ben as an editor, and I think I will revert the write access >> grant to everyone >> >> Ben >> >> On 28 Nov 2013, at 13:28, Camille Teruel <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I changed permissions on this wiki. Does it solves the problem? >> >> On 28 nov. 2013, at 13:16, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I'd like to add some stuff to the Fogbugz Welcome page [1], but I can't >> work out how to do it. Is a permissions issue maybe hiding something from >> my page (see attached) ? >> [1] https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W41 >> >> cheers -ben >> <pharo.fogbugz.Wiki.png> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >
