wiki spam!

[Samuel Klein]

We can run an anti-blanking bot to avoid the most obvious spam.  Requiring
logins makes tracking casual vandals harder without making it harder for any
dedicated vandal such as this one from doing their devious deeds.

Of course, if you want to restrict viral communication on our wiki by
increasing the barrier to entry for casual participants... :-)

SJ


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos <ypod at mit.edu>
wrote:

> It's becoming very annoying having to deal with spam (bots?) operating on
> the wiki, trying to blank wiki pages, like in the case of the following:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multi-hop_mesh_network_in_MIT_campus
>
> Is there a way to prevent that? Why not require user logins to make edits?
>
> p.
>
> --
> Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
> Graduate student
> Viral Communications
> MIT Media Lab
> Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058
> http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ <http://www.mit.edu/%7Eypod/>
>
>
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