Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: wiki spam

Hi,

so, a quick update: It seems that at the moment the amount of new, 
spamming accounts is back to normal. It's not the AbuseFilter I've 
installed, since it was triggered only two times or so, according to its 
own statistics, but maybe one of the other mechanisms I've implemented.

Sophie Gautier wrote on 2013-06-11 17:47:

[OpenID]
> Well, I not for that one (I don't like to be forced to something ;-)

It would probably be very effective, but then, it's at least political 
complicated, so I don't want to go that way right now.

[Limiting external URLs]
> +1 for this one from my side. I don't think it will touch new 'real'
> contributors so much. Most of the time they come to add or translate
> content, not to put a link to another place.

The concrete extension I've found seems to have some serious drawbacks, 
like (just read today) "his filter also attempts to deceive spammers 
into believing their edits have succeeded. This does mean that anonymous 
users who make legitimate edits containing non-spammy URLs get blocked 
without any feedback that they are getting blocked" - doesn't sound too 
intuitive.

My proposal is to wait how the situation develops. If the new filters 
and mechanisms installed can cope with the current spammers, then let's 
leave it as if. It the situation gets worse, we need to enforce more 
limits, like the external URL throttling.

Florian

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