On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:13:11 +0100 Tom Willemsen <tom.willemsen@archlinux.us> wrote:
"must be verified, like forum logins" => this is called authentication. But I'm not sure how exactly you want to authenticate them. "simple single-click verification" ? How would that work?
No I only mean like how forums and other kinds of websites verify email addresses. You send an email to the address they sent and the test results they have entered don't become valid until they click the link in the email to prove that they might actually exist. It was just an idea and not one I thought users might be thrilled about, but I'm guessing not many spambots will respond to such things and I'm also guessing people will get easily annoyed and won't bother this way. Single click was just me trying to explain the process: User enters data, server sends email to entered address, user clicks link in email and server knows the user is more likely to be a real person trying to help improve the community. I dunno, probably not a good idea...
This is almost a user registration/authentication system. (the difference is that with the latter, you confirm your email-address only once, and from then on authenticate with a password) Even though it would introduce yet another different account on users, I'm afraid this will be the only option if we want some credibility of reports. (which I find a must for this app) Django probably has an easy way to do registration and authentication. Dieter