[haiku-web] Re: IMPORTANT : Creating New User Accounts has been restricted to administrators only.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 23:08, Jorge G. Mare<koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Earlier today, i enabled the Bio Profile as part of the User Registration.
>> It is not configured as a mandatory field.
>>
>> I'm hoping that :
>>  1- the spammers will enter the urls during user registration
>>  2- mollom will be able to detect that and protect us from those spammers.
>>
>> So, for now we should leave the Bio Profile enabled and visible and
>> see what the results look like in a day or two.
>>
>
> But Urias has already told us that this is not the case, and I quote him:
>
>> Strangely enough, accounts that a couple days ago were fine, with no
>> Bio spam, often have spam in them a day or two later... so we have to
>> keep checking them
>
> IOW, the bio field is often filled not during registration but
> afterwards, so the above scenario is not likely to work.

The reason why new users never filled in the Bio Profile *while*
registering a new account is because the option to do so was never
enabled.

Mollom has an option to check user registration forms.

Mollom was unable to check our Bio Profiles because it was populated
at the same time of the new user registration.

...So, what I'm trying is to provide the option for a user to enter
the Bio Profile during account registration. It may be possible that
some spammers will attempt to put the spam url's at that time. If so,
Mollom should be able to detect them as spammers and deny them(or
whatever it is mollom does in such a situation).

And yes, I do understand that if a spammer decides to skip the bio
profile and fill it out at a later date, then this is a moot point.
But, it's still worth trying.

--mmadia
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