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Re: New spam measures for glibc wiki; the "I vouch for you" list.


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.

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com


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