[haiku-web] Re: Fwd: [Website feedback] "Not allowed to request a new password"
- From: "Dennis d'Entremont" <dennis.dentremont@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:27:18 -0400
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 08:08 -0800, Urias McCullough wrote:
> > 2009/11/8 Jonas Sundström <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Actually, we end up blocking a lot of accounts pretty regularly (as
> > in, several a day) - mostly for spamming with URLs in their profiles
> > or comments... it really wouldn't be productive to email every
> > individual blocked. These guys are mostly fly-by URL spammers, it
> > would probably be a waste of time to email them.
> >
> > For a quick stat, our website has ~2400 blocked users out of ~6000 total
>
> Spam account are quite pervasive; I have been blocking 5-10 spam
> accounts per day for the last several months. The situation would be
> even worse were it not for the Mollom module that Urias added to the
> site; this filter blocks approximately 50 spam accounts a day, the all
> time record for a day being 3152 blocked accounts (on July 18).
>
> So, yeah, it's an ugly world out there, and we are doing a pretty good
> job to keep the website clean in spite of it.
>
I am just curious as to where we stand with the initial request. I think the
general consensus was that we could give this guy another chance. Just
curious if that is still the case or if we are going to leave the account
blocked as it currently is.
Thanks
Dennis
>
> Regards,
>
> Jorge/aka Koki
>
>
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