On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 01:56:11PM -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote: > > If anyone has better solutions I am all ears. :)
Nothing better, just an experience to speak of. Fedora's system works because it does prove someone is a human but does require either removal of anonymity or lying. What I use on http://theopensourceway.org/wiki/ is clearly a barrier to participation. I require manual account creation, but any user can create other users. Over time that barrier will slowly creep down, but it won't ever be that low, and again, it removes anonymity or requires some arrangement. Wide open to participation has its good parts, and its parts. I read you say about stooping to use a captcha device, but that seems to me like the only way to keep anonymity and be spam free. We can then patrol the edits properly, and if any anonymous human starts doing stuff, we can start using the account blocking tools, etc. I'd reckon that would reduce the count of spam by quite a bit. - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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