[Gmod-help] GMOD website vandalised

[Hilmar Lapp]

On May 27, 2008, at 1:20 AM, Dave Clements wrote:

> We could tighten this in probably any number of ways, such as  
> requiring a valid e-mail address, or approval from a sys admin.   
> These are all against the wiki way,

Agreed.

> but spending your holiday weekend undoing vandalism is not time  
> well spent.


It depends on the frequency that this happens. Assuming that the  
perpetrator didn't use a bot that somehow was able to decode the  
captcha or otherwise circumvent it, the vandalism did require manual  
intervention (after which he/she probably ran a bot).

We've had this happen too on the BioPerl wiki but it has been rare  
enough not to be a real issue that outweighs the ease with which  
people from the community can participate in fixing/creating  
documentation.

	-hilmar
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