[projectaon] Spam on wiki pages (was: Re: 17tdoi blurb needed)
- From: Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 23:51:14 +0200
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 22:50, Simon Osborne wrote:
> And on another note, why exactly are cretinous little pricks
> targeting our wiki site with spam? Is there any way to stop them?
> Should we consider password protecting the main site pages?
Those are most likely robots searching the whole internet for open wikis
to upload there spam to. If it doesn't happen too often then simply
revert those changes. If it happens too often then one option which
wouldn't require passwords is to use those challenges we are seeing
nowadays everywhere, i.e. images showing distorted random text which
has to be typed into a confirmation field. Those challenges keep robots
from uploading their spam because they are not able to read the
distorted random text and thus can't answer the challenge. Modern wikis
should support such challenges.
Regards,
Ingo
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