RE: Tips which are spam
My suggestion: implement a reverse captcha. There is no additional overhead for users, and friends of mine who have implemented it have found that it foils the spammers, at least for now, with very little work. http://damienkatz.net/2007/01/negative_captch.html Max > -Original Message- > From: John Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 12:15 PM > To: vim > Subject: Re: Tips which are spam > > Andy Wokula wrote: > > Currently there is much spam in recent comments: > > http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/recent_notes.php > > Last time this was discussed I got the impression that there is a > feeling that if no one reads the spam, then it is not a problem. > > But I think the situation is worse than that. The spammers don't > care if anyone reads the tips. They want the optimisation to their > search ranking in Google et al from having links to their site. > Helping these leaches is no longer acceptable IMHO. > > Lots of places on the Internet have had to implement a simple > logon or at least a captcha - anonymous posting can't be allowed. > > John
RE: Tips which are spam
Might be easier on the user to use the 'negative captcha' idea floating about online: Put a hidden form field called "email", "phone", "login" or some such that a bot is likely to fill and use CSS to hide it. A human won't see it, but a bot will (ignoring CSS). If the field ends up containing a value, it must have been filled by a bot; ignore the tip/note submission. Not foolproof, but it'll probably work here. Salman. > -Original Message- > From: Andy Wokula [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 3:35 PM > To: John Beckett > Cc: vim > Subject: Re: Tips which are spam > > John Beckett schrieb: > > Andy Wokula wrote: > >> Currently there is much spam in recent comments: > >> http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/recent_notes.php > > > > Last time this was discussed I got the impression that there is a > > feeling that if no one reads the spam, then it is not a problem. > > > > But I think the situation is worse than that. The spammers > don't care > > if anyone reads the tips. They want the optimisation to > their search > > ranking in Google et al from having links to their site. > > Helping these leaches is no longer acceptable IMHO. > > > > Lots of places on the Internet have had to implement a > simple logon or > > at least a captcha - anonymous posting can't be allowed. > > > > John > > E.g. posters must either login or solve simple math (or > answer simple Vim questions, even better ;) next to the "Add > Note" button. > > Should be fairly easy to add? > > Andy > > -- > EOF > > > ___ > Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: > http://messenger.yahoo.de >
Re: Tips which are spam
John Beckett schrieb: Andy Wokula wrote: Currently there is much spam in recent comments: http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/recent_notes.php Last time this was discussed I got the impression that there is a feeling that if no one reads the spam, then it is not a problem. But I think the situation is worse than that. The spammers don't care if anyone reads the tips. They want the optimisation to their search ranking in Google et al from having links to their site. Helping these leaches is no longer acceptable IMHO. Lots of places on the Internet have had to implement a simple logon or at least a captcha - anonymous posting can't be allowed. John E.g. posters must either login or solve simple math (or answer simple Vim questions, even better ;) next to the "Add Note" button. Should be fairly easy to add? Andy -- EOF ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de
Re: Tips which are spam
Andy Wokula wrote: Currently there is much spam in recent comments: http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/recent_notes.php Last time this was discussed I got the impression that there is a feeling that if no one reads the spam, then it is not a problem. But I think the situation is worse than that. The spammers don't care if anyone reads the tips. They want the optimisation to their search ranking in Google et al from having links to their site. Helping these leaches is no longer acceptable IMHO. Lots of places on the Internet have had to implement a simple logon or at least a captcha - anonymous posting can't be allowed. John
Re: Tips which are spam
Currently there is much spam in recent comments: http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/recent_notes.php Andy -- EOF ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de
RE: Tips which are spam--clean up author/summary
Moderators can only mark tips and/or comments as spam. We can't make any other changes. > -Original Message- > From: Russell Bateman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 4:09 PM > To: vim > Subject: Re: Tips which are spam--clean up author/summary > > While (someone) is at it, tip #1472's author and summary need > to be adjusted. Similarly, #1456's author field. > > >
Re: Tips which are spam--clean up author/summary
While (someone) is at it, tip #1472's author and summary need to be adjusted. Similarly, #1456's author field.
