<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Andy Isaacson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adi@hexapodia.org">adi@hexapodia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:14:28PM -0700, Robert Fletcher wrote:<br>
> Hey guys, I've been noticing a lot of new spam user accounts being created<br>
> on the wiki, which is to say hundreds of them. I'd be happy to help delete<br>
> them if I had that sort of access, but it doesn't solve the problem of them<br>
> being created in the first place. It seems like email confirmation would go<br>
> a long way to stemming the tide, and captcha even more so. Email in<br>
> particular IIRC is just an option you can turn on. Captcha shouldn't be a<br>
> great deal harder. Again, it's been a while since I've done any wiki<br>
> administration, but I think it was just a plugin and a service you sign up<br>
> for. Is there anybody who has access and can enable them?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd like to do some bureacratting of the wiki too, if that's possible. My username is dob on pony an d Malaclyps on the wiki.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There's also a Secretaribot account on the wiki that I control, which I was looking at using for automated tasks.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div></div>Yep it's definitely gotten out of hand. We've been keeping it down to a<br>
dull roar by just blocking and reverting manually, I can make you a wiki<br>
Administrator so you can block users but I don't know your wiki<br>
username?<br>
<br>
I would really love to implement the Adafruit resistor CAPTCHA for<br>
account creation, see for example:<br>
<a href="http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/07/01/part-finder-friday-ir-leds/" target="_blank">http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/07/01/part-finder-friday-ir-leds/</a><br>
<br>
(It's not great for RG-colorblind folks, of which we have plenty, but I<br>
don't have a much better suggestion...)<br>
<br>
-andy<br>
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