Re: [RFC] Spam on the glibc wiki.

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Wednesday 18 July 2012 09:46:01 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> I'm looking for any recommendations on how to shut out the spammers
> from the wiki.

same suggestion as i posted when the kernel.org wiki was having this problem: 
add a poor man's captcha.

<tr>
 <td>
  What color is "white"?  (The answer is: "white"):
 </td>
 <td>
  <input type="text" name="botcheck">
 </td>
</tr>
then have the server side reject the request if the botcheck field isn't 
"white"

it won't stop human spammers (but the only way to combat that would be to make 
account registration a manual thing), but it should cut off the bots.

i implemented this in the old bug tracker on busybox.net/uclibc.org, and it 
completely shut down automated spammers (and i never saw a human spam).
-mike

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