On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:47:39 -0800, Ashley Yakeley <ashley@semantic.org> wrote:
There has been a lot of spam on HaskellWiki. Since anonymous edits have been switched off, a spammer tactic has been to create hundreds of accounts to evade individual account blocks.
To combat this, I have
1. deleted all user accounts that have made no edits; 2. switched off account creation; 3. blocked at least some of the remaining spam accounts.
This is obviously not ideal, as there is now no way for new users to edit the wiki. I will investigate appropriate ways to allow account creation.
Instead of switching off all new account creation, perhaps you could shut off account creation/access for just those domains for which spammers have been creating accounts? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^