[Gmod-help] GMOD website vandalised

[Todd Vision]

Requiring email verification upon registration does not seem like much of a
barrier to users, and I suspect would largely dissuade this kind of
vandalism.

Todd

On 5/27/08 8:10 AM, "Hilmar Lapp" <hlapp at duke.edu> wrote:

> 
> 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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