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Re: [GDB Wiki] Add editor privilege control
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 10:35:21 -0500
- Subject: Re: [GDB Wiki] Add editor privilege control
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Hi -
stanshebs wrote:
> [...] If we were getting multiple spams per day, limiting to
> registered members would make sense, but right now it doesn't seem
> necessary. [...]
With the present scheme, effective spam fighting requires ongoing
manual operations by you / tromey / whoever.
Plus, the present scheme enables any spammer to create a moinmoin
userid, create a junk page, then leave. The problem is that every
such junk user bogs the wiki software down more and more: there are
some 4000 now, with 10+/day new ones coming. (Over at gcc/glibc,
before a cleanup, we had almost a hundred thousand (!), which was
enough to cause cgi/http timeouts to valid users.) Cleaning *those*
up is difficult without a whitelist such as the EditorGroup.
- FChE