[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
[Date Index]
[Thread Index]
- Subject: Re: LuaForge Documentation Efforts
- From: Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:34:42 +0200
Jerome Vuarand wrote:
Ideally you could block anonymous edits on a per-page basis, just like
wikipedia does. For example you could block anonymous edits on the front
page since it's the one most likely to be vandalized.
I saw too many good Wiki closed because of spam... :-(
What was a good idea/concept has been ruined by greedy people, once again.
I reckon that sometime I see a typo or want to make a small remark on a
software or a page, so I search an e-mail address or a forum. In the
later case, if I need to log in, in 9 cases out of 10, I just go away...
On the other hand, without good moderators or filters, spam is a plague.
I saw a forum with 3 or 4 sections, all of them almost empty except
one... which was filled of spam.
And I started to make a blog, with s9y which doesn't display the number
of comments in the main page. When I had a look at the database, I saw I
had actually lot of comments. A quick scan shown that I could just do
'truncate table'... While the blog software blocked lot of spam attacks
already.
Hey, I even saw in a forum a topic advertizing for a service (located in
Russian, IIRC) of human operators to post spam on forums...
--
Philippe Lhoste
-- (near) Paris -- France
-- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --