If the threshold is also 10, it might help at least somewhat. That way if your first submission is spam, its still blocked, but you get a buffer if you have been good in the past.
--Noah Christopher Lenz wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
