Wiki Defacement

[Alex Beamish]

On 6/13/07, CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 June 2007 08:29, Colin McGregor wrote:
> [snip]
> > Bottom line, even if the spammer(s) go away NOW and
> > don't return (no promise on that score) we still have
> > a mess on our hands,,,
>
> This will not help the mess that is already there but for preventing
> future messes, is it possible to have moderator approved membership
> or requiring the first X changes needing to be approved by a
> moderator for them to be published? I was having a problem with link
> spam on a Drupal site recently by spammers registering for user
> accounts and going nuts with comments on content. Once I changed the
> membership to "requires administrative approval", or whatever the
> Drupal wording was, the problem disappeared.
> --

Great idea -- or if there's some way to put a new user on probation
for the first 30 days; perhaps allow them to make one change per day.
And as soon as they spam, their account is closed.

And logging the IP address is not a silver bullet, but it could be useful.

-- 
Alex Beamish
Toronto, Ontario
aka talexb
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