Re: [libreoffice-website] CAPTCHA to subscribe to the wiki?

On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 13:47 +0100, Volker Merschmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2011/2/6 Florian Effenberger <floeff@documentfoundation.org>:
> > Michael Wheatland wrote on 2011-02-06 13.16:
> > > reCaptcha has good accessibility access as it also allows for the
> > > generated passcode to be read aloud via audio.
> > > http://www.google.com/recaptcha
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any issue with implementing reCaptcha?
> >
> > Manuel, do you know of any goot Captcha software and other measurements to
> > protect from spamming? Seems we're suffering from spam, although e-mail
> > verification is mandatory before editing pages.
> I remember that wiki.services.openoffice.org also got it's Captcha
> last year when the spam got to mouch.
> Maybe we can look over there and see what Clayton installed.
> It did not solve the problem to zero but to a manageable number.

One more piece of information here - there is a new trend i spam, it is
showing up on lots of forums and I believe in this case wikis also and
that is to only register an account with the service (forum/wik) when
the profile for that service allows a URL for your personal website, and
then to start using Twitter to point to your personal profile page on
that site - this one is a real pain and OOoForum for instance has been
hit hard by it. 

It is fairly new, last couple of years, and I don't really know how it
is working for their goal, to get the link into the search engines, but
since it is rising perhaps it works..anyway, just to let you know.

//drew


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