Timeline for It's way too easy to spam the site. How can we make it harder without sacrificing usability to new (legit) users?
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Aug 18, 2016 at 16:05 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Yes they are, @ashish | |
| Aug 18, 2016 at 10:37 | comment | added | Box Box Box Box | so has the IP block been implemented now? | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:45 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| Aug 20, 2013 at 23:01 | history | edited | Shog9Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 12, 2013 at 21:42 | comment | added | gnat | "no reason not to enable" sounds almost like "reason to enable". I'd add two more negatives though, no account registration not on AU. Maybe, not at this point | |
| Apr 12, 2013 at 21:41 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | It seems to me that requiring registration on Ask Ubuntu would be a very bad thing. Many users who come to us at Ask Ubuntu for help have very minimal technical skills (though of course others are extremely skilled--AU is not only for novices). Creating any additional technical hurdles for new users is not justified in the name of fighting spam. Some spammers will always find a way to spam the site, but technically non-proficient users, some of whom have trouble just browsing the web, will not. CAPTCHAs for unregistered users would be preferable; they discriminate less against super-novices. | |
| Apr 12, 2013 at 3:20 | history | edited | Shog9Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2013 at 20:10 | vote | accept | ɥʇǝS | ||
| Mar 25, 2013 at 18:58 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | there is no reason not to enable account registration on AU at this point. | |
| Mar 23, 2013 at 21:41 | comment | added | ɥʇǝS | I noticed that the links were plain text now: i.sstatic.net/pGc25.png Did you change anything? I'm just curious... | |
| Mar 23, 2013 at 18:29 | comment | added | ɥʇǝS | Yes I know some spammers are registered, but turning on required registration will not only make it harder for them to spam, but it will give us more information to work with. I also think we should limit users with less than 10 reputation from posting more than 1 link as well; since most of the spam I have seen had two links (weird right?). | |
| Mar 22, 2013 at 22:49 | comment | added | mpdonadio | @MadScientist We haven't seen the blacklist helping for more than a day or two on Drupal Answers. | |
| Mar 22, 2013 at 22:28 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | Easier and safer blacklisting of URLs would be the most promising action in my opinion. Especially in combination with some automatic statistics on URLs collected from spam flagged posts. At least in the spam floods I've seen, the URLs were pretty much constant. | |
| Mar 22, 2013 at 21:25 | history | answered | Shog9Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
