On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:33:39PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:33:18AM +0100, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
Status quo:
06:54 < gtmanfred> ok, it really is time for something else 06:54 < gtmanfred> the spammer is now creating a new account for every comment and flag out of date
The account suspension feature does not help here.
Options:
* Allow package maintainers to block the "Flag package out-of-date" feature for a certain amount of time. Note that this might eventually cripple the "out-of-date" function. Also, this does not work for comments.
* Use CAPTCHAs during account registration. We could either use MAPTCHAs ("What is 1 + 1?") or something like reCAPTCHA [1].
* Moderate new accounts. Might be a lot of work. We need some TUs that review and unlock accounts. Also, it might be hard to distinguish a spam bot from a regular user. If we require a short application text, this might result in less users joining the AUR.
* Block IP addresses. Bye-bye, Tor users!
Please just do this. We aren't dealing with some "spam epidemic" so much as we are dealing with a small number of bored idiots who are hiding behind Tor exit nodes.
Comments and suggestions welcome! We need to find a proper solution as soon as possible!
PLEASE DO THIS https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ now he is vote spamming -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology