On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
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.
Yup.
> 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.
Yeah. I have no idea how mediawiki actually works with those things, but I'm not sure what else we can do. It's been suggested to have a cooling-off period for new accounts, but how long should that be... I guess we could have a 2-4 week cooling off period and then some way to bypass it by contacting someone manually, but who's going to deal with those approvals?
