[Opensim-dev] Wiki: Captcha, anyone?

[Nebadon Izumi]

Fritigern, I think the difference is Wikipedia has literally 100's if not
1000's of volunteers, try posting something on Wikipedia, it will literally
be erased within minutes if not seconds of you posting it.  I am not saying
we should not install these things, but I can tell you in the example of the
OSgrid wiki, everything you mentioned did absolutely nothing to stop spam,
in fact I can pretty much say that our spam even increased over time after
having them installed, I even shut off log ins for about 2 months, and then
decided maybe enough time had passed and that the spammers would move on,
and literally within 5 minutes of turning log ins back on, the spam started
up again, whatever is doing it is fully automated, and captcha/recaptcha had
literally no effect.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Fritigern Gothly <
fritigerngothly at gmail.com> wrote:

> @ Nebadon. It's true that a captcha will not deter ALL spammers,
> "your" spammer is a good example of that. However, it will stop a good
> number of other spammers. And although i don't expect spamming to stop
> completely, i do expect to see a decrease in the amount of spammery
> that goes on on the OpenSim wiki.
> BTW, could it be possible that you have missed something, like a
> setting, a variable, anything? Since Wikipedia actively uses that
> captcha, it must work in one way or another.
> And maybe it's now safe to open the OSGrid wiki again, after all,
> "your" spammer may already have moved on.
>
> @ Volker, that Google Capcha service, is that the reCaptcha? If so,
> then that would be supported by the ConfirmEdit extension.
>
> @Justin. Maybe bribe him with a cookie? :-)
> Seriously though, I would be all for coyled helping with maintenance,
> if he's still up for it.
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Michael Emory Cerquoni - Nebadon Izumi @ http://osgrid.org
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