I completely second Craigs comment above. The fear of spam is so strong in all of us that we set up all of the anti-spam anti-gaming anti-abuse systems, and then no one even uses it let alone tries to abuse the system.
We required registrations for rbutr from the beginning, because we couldn't let people add rebuttals with no accountability! Everyone would add anything! It would be hell! Except it wouldn't be. To date, two years in, we still don't have any spam or any abuse of any kind. Early adopters don't tend to spam - that comes well after massive growth. ie: It isn't worth spamming a system until the spam will actually be seen by hundreds of thousands of people - so keep it really simple at the start, and resist the urge to protect yourself against your fears. Fears are mostly misplaced. I wish we didn't require registration for people to add rebuttals to rbutr - but it is so hard coded in to our database now, that it would require a lot of work to undo it, so it will have to stay this way until we have spare resources to undo this simple cliched decision. ------------------------------------ http://www.rbutr.com http://www.ShaneGreenup.com On 24 January 2014 10:26, Andrew Ballard <[email protected]> wrote: > I am officially buying everyone on this thread a beer/coffee: awesome > feedback. > > I'll allow sites to go live without verification, and fall back to > requiring verification only if there's a conflict. The > file-in-your-web-root-system can be the ultimate arbiter, but yes: it's > overly onerous to decent peace-loving folk. > > Give me one hour, two coffees, and try again, Alex/Craig/Shane. Cheers : ) > > > On Friday, January 24, 2014 10:15:12 AM UTC+11, Craig Stump wrote: >> >> "*How would we stop that 13 year old kid from Molvanîa claiming they >> built the entire internet?*" - Cross that bridge when you get to it. For >> now, the verification process is a massive traction barrier. I'd go with a >> trust system until you start to see dodgy data. >> > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more > > Forum rules > 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Silicon Beach Australia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
