wiki spam!

Bastien bzg at altern.org
Fri Jun 20 18:00:24 EDT 2008


"Samuel Klein" <meta.sj at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Bastien <bzg at altern.org> wrote:
>
>     "Joseph A. Feinstein" <joe at laptop.org> writes:
>    
>     > I had the same instance today, with a community testing page. Spoke
>     > with Kim... she said it's a wiki's feature, not a bug! ;-(
>    
>     If you admit it's a wiki feature (which I wouldn't), you should also
>     admit it's a community bug.
>
> Ease of contribution is a feature.  Uncaught spam is a bug.  There are many
> good ways to combat spam; required registration isn't one of them.

I do agree.  

My only point was that you don't fix (community) bug by convincing
yourself that spam is a wiki feature!

PS: what are the currently installed software-based anti-spam tools on
the wiki?

-- 
Bastien



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