Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Spam on the Haskell wiki

We could even have a "report spam" button on each page, and if enough users click on it (for a given revision), the revision gets forwarded to a moderator.

I think, this will be of real use, but should be used along with CAPTCHA because then spammers may "report spam" for everything and anything on the site. But with captcha, it will be real helpful, as it means the moderation task is more or less crowd-sourced. regards, Damodar On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Alexander Solla wrote:

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:46 PM, wren ng thornton wrote:

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On 7/30/12 5:35 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

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- Block creation of usernames o ending with two or more digits o with more than one x or q o starting with "buy" o longer than 20 characters o with more than 4 consonants in a row

As other's've mentioned, many of these constraints impose undue burden on users with linguistic heritage outside of western Europe. Creating a decent filter for recognizing legitimate names across the majority of languages is quite difficult.

Though there's no reason this has to be a strong blacklisting of usernames. If there's a willing volunteer (as seems to have been implied), then something like this could serve as a filter requiring manual override. All usernames are available... but some take longer to activate. Of course, there's always the power-to-weight issue for this kind of solution.

Yeah, I volunteered. I'd like to see some kind of random round-robin system to dispatch approval edits to a group of volunteers (i.e., if I only had to scan 10 or so edits for spam a day -- I don't feel inclined to read for correctness). It wouldn't be so bad if there was 10-20 volunteers. I suppose a lot less could do it if it was just approving user requests (but, I also think that would be less effective at stopping spam)

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