On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:00 PM, A.M. Kuchling <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 02:28:54PM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> roughly the same, so I'm pretty sure there's a bot at work. That suggests >> to me that either there is a human helper to get past the TextChas or they >> aren't being applied when they should be. (I get prompted whenever I edit >> the LocalBadContent page, so they are active in certain circumstances.) > > I tried creating a new page when logged in, and editing an existing > page, and was prompted for textchas on all of them. When I entered a > wrong answer, the edit didn't go through. So there may be a human > involved at some level, or maybe they've made a list of all the > questions/answers. > > If that's so, I don't know what can be done about this, other than > making the textchas harder or just restricting editing of the Jython > wiki to a limited list of people, which might be OK if the Jython > community agrees -- not many people edit the wiki. > > We could add rel=nofollow to the links to deny the spammers pagerank, > but are they sophisticated enough to notice? (They certainly aren't > noticing that we delete pages pretty quickly.)
Can gather all stats about spam web requests? -- anatoly t. _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
