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Re: New spam measures for glibc wiki; the "I vouch for you" list.
- From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at tilera dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>, Frank Eigler <fche at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 13:21:20 -0400
- Subject: Re: New spam measures for glibc wiki; the "I vouch for you" list.
- References: <518A858F dot 6080604 at redhat dot com>
On 5/8/2013 1:04 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Community,
>
> The amount of spamming on the wiki grows larger and larger by the day.
> Thomas and myself struggle valiantly to delete spam, but it's a loosing
> battle.
>
> As of immediately we've instituted a "I vouch for you" list. Only people
> on the "I vouch for you" list can edit the wiki. The way to get on the
> list is to get someone from the list to vouch for you and add you to the
> list.
"Struggling valiantly" sounds bad when you and Thomas could be using that time for much more constructive work in the glibc community. Sounds like a good tradeoff to me, and a nicely community-driven technical solution.
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