[OE-core] [oe] locking down patchwork and wiki registrations

[Tom King]

There are many of us who watch and can do this (at least 10
"administrators")

Tom

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:

> On 1/9/13 9:59 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> We receive tonne of spam in form of registrations everyday and some of
>> bots have become smarted that they even activate their
>> profiles. It has to be manually deleted and its tedious. I would
>> therefore like to remove the 'register' link from pw front page
>> that will stop the spam as I have already experimented with it a bit.
>>
>> Same is also true for wiki. We should make the registration process to
>> be manual since that will put some end to registration spam.
>>
>> I am open to other ideas to stop spam without locking registrations.
>>
>> The registrations will still happen but should be done manually.
>>
>
> I don't have any problem w/ manual registration, but I do have a concern.
> Manual registration often times becomes a black hole for people.  You send
> off a request to get registered and if the one person, who in their spare
> time monitors it happens to be on vacation for three weeks it just
> disappears.
>
> If we do this, we need to come up with a way that a group of people can
> add to the registered users.  Perhaps even allowing all registered e.V.
> members to do it?
>
> --Mark
>
>  Thanks
>> -Khem
>>
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