Re: Spam on the wiki - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Spam on the wiki
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Msg-id 31035.1450365097@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Spam on the wiki  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Spam on the wiki  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> So they break the captcha in seconds. I'm more and more thinking andres'
> idea that it's actually farmed out to people and not just bots...

Yeah, it's sounding a lot like manual creation of the accounts and then
bots doing the actual spamming.

> My suggestion is we make all edits on the wiki moderated, if that's at all
> possible. It's AFAIK the only service where we allow people to post things
> with no moderation on the content today, and clearly that's not working.

Sigh.  That's pretty ugly, though maybe it will work if you can set it up
so that known members of the community can bypass the moderation.  The
bulk of the legitimate edits probably come from a fairly small number of
people.
        regards, tom lane



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