[oe] [OE-core] locking down patchwork and wiki registrations
Mark Hatle
mark.hatle at windriver.com
Wed Jan 9 22:12:27 UTC 2013
On 1/9/13 3:58 PM, Tom King wrote:
> There are many of us who watch and can do this (at least 10 "administrators")
As long as requests can avoid a black hole, I don't have any other concerns with
manual registration.
--Mark
> Tom
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com
> <mailto: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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