[Opensim-users] OpenSimulator wiki updated

[Jeff Kelley]

At 12:46 AM +0000 22/1/14, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:

>>  2/ Spam is high. How can we help?
>
>I know there are all kinds of tools for trying to control spam 
>(captchas, etc.) but
>these haven't worked well in the past. I don't think there's any way we can go
>back to automatic user account creation - it just allows too much spam.

Clearly, we are target of a bot. Antibot pretends to be able to fight XRumer.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Spam_management_extensions


>At the moment, I'm thinking that perhaps having a moderation queue for
>new user accounts fronted by some basic OpenSimulator questions

What about moderating the first edit and whitelist? It's far more 
difficult for a bot to submit a relevant edit than decide if opensim 
is a cat or a server.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WhiteList


-- Jeff