Am 04.10.2006 um 22:45 schrieb Noah Kantrowitz: > I know this has come up before, but the false positive rate for > Askimet > on t.e.o is getting to be problematic. Just as an off-the-top-of-my- > head > proposal to improve, could we add some kind of karma tracking system? > Start each anonymous session at a fixed karma (lets say 10), and only > allow them to post thing while that stays over a threshhold. > SpamFilter > would run its tests on each submission, and set it up something > like -1 > karma for each failed test, +0.1 for each passed one. While this would > probably let through more spam than the current setup, I think the > number of people that might be turned off from using Trac (or from > writting docs/bug reports) is even worse. I have been helping Alec > with > spam monitoring (and deleting) on trac-hacks, and would be happy to > help > on t.e.o too.
The problem with that proposal is that most spam submissions don't reuse a session or even the same IP address. Most spammers would look like a new visitor to the karma system, get the initial 10 points and be allowed to spam, and then come back as a different user. An interesting experiment might be to give users karma based on whether they have set up a username/email in their settings, and maybe how long-lived their session is. I'm not sure how effective that'd be. Cheers, Chris -- Christopher Lenz cmlenz at gmx.de http://www.cmlenz.net/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. 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/trac-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
