19 Jan
2009
19 Jan
'09
8:41 a.m.
Ashley Yakeley 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.
Maybe it could help to restrict the account creation rate per IP? For example, every IP may only create one account per 12 hours. Regards, apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com