[Noisebridge-discuss] Spam on the wiki

[Lee Sonko]

NospamNX is a spam prevention plugin for Wordpress that works very well. It
uses a nice model. If someone (not me, unfortunately) was excited about
building a Mediawiki extension off this model, it could be sweet. The Create
User page could be salted with NospamNX magic to stop automated account
creation.


>From the plugin page:
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Many Antispam Plugins focus on user interaction, e.g. captcha or
calculations to defend you against automated comment spambots. Some use
JavaScript and/or Sessions. NoSpamNX intend to handle automated
comment-spam-protection without these measures. It does not require
JavaScript, Cookies or Sessions. It does not change any of your comment
template fields, given you more compatibility with other WordPress- or
Browser Plugins.

NoSpamNX automaticly adds additional formfields to your comment form,
invisible to human users. If a spambot fills these fields blindly (which
most of all spambots do), the comment will not be saved.
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http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nospamnx/
http://www.svenkubiak.de/nospamnx-en/





On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 05:03:26PM -0700, L E wrote:
> > +1 for email+ReCaptcha registration.  Yay!
>
> I'm strongly against email reg requirements; mail accounts are easy to
> come by anyways, and I'm not going to get into the "these are known spam
> domains" game.  A captcha, especially an unusual one, is much better
> IMO.  It could be as simple as "solve this math problem and put the
> result in this textbox".
>
> We survived for 4 years (holy fuck! it's been four years since this
> crazy idea got started) with just requiring SSL; incremental improvement
> is sufficient.
>
> I'm still amused that anonymous editing isn't more of a problem.
>
> -andy
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