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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>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.<BR>
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On 5/27/08 8:10 AM, "Hilmar Lapp" <hlapp@duke.edu> wrote:<BR>
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On May 27, 2008, at 1:20 AM, Dave Clements wrote:<BR>
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Agreed.<BR>
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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).<BR>
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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.<BR>
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