[LAU] wiki.LAO - lockdown to registered users

[Neil C Smith]

Hi,

I'm involved with the management of a range of sites and we find that
even requiring registration and an email address doesn't necessarily
cut out all spam.  You might also want to consider something like
Mollom (http://mollom.com) - it's free for small community sites, and
developed by the originator of Drupal.

Best wishes,

Neil

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On 17 July 2012 17:54, Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> http://wiki.linuxaudio.org is seeing an increasing amount of SPAM.
>
> For a while it has been sufficient to [fail2]ban IP addresses that
> incorrectly guess CAPTCHA - ie. prevent brute-force attacks and manually
> revert the remaining pollution. -- Yet in the last months either CAPTCHA
> breaking has improved or there are real persons doing the spamming.
>
> I did not do statistics, but from watching the changelog I gather that
> the vast majority of contributions to the wiki comes from registered
> users. So the idea is to lock the wiki down and only allow registered
> users (registration requires an email address) to edit it.
>
> Thoughts? Objections?
>
> robin
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