[aur-general] User ban request --- can I get a response, please?

[Xyne]

I really don't want to see captchas on the AUR (Google doesn't need to more
info), nor do I think playing whack-a-mole with disposable email providers is a
good idea.

What I think we really need is an internal limit on flagging packages. It could
be tied to the age of the account and/or hourly rate.

As for unflagging, if you have been affected by this troll then post your
username and I will mass-unflag your packages.

(If any other TU wants this superpower, email me).

Maxime Gauduin wrote:

>On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 01:16 -0500, Allen Li wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:30:05PM -0500, Limao Luo wrote:
>> >On 03/05/2013 11:21 PM, William Giokas wrote:
>> >>Captchas, man. Captchas. I know it will very very slightly inconvenience
>> >>some people that have to flag a few packages out of date at a time, but
>> >>really, it would only save us from crap like this.
>> >>
>> >Yeah, they mentioned that in the aur-dev conversation, among other
>> >ideas like IP blocking (which actually sounds good, except more than
>> >one person can have an IP, so I don't know how much that would work,
>> >unless there is some timeout period or something for the block) and
>> >repeatedly doubling intervals after successive flags that time out
>> >after an hour (which, while annoying, doesn't seem like an enough of
>> >a deterrent, but I could be wrong).
>> >
>> >Well, not much to do except wait it out, I guess. I just can't
>> >remember which packages I have to update now.
>> 
>> Instead of captchas for flagging packages, do we have captchas for
>> creating new accounts already?  That seems more sensible.  Also, perhaps
>> blocking new accounts using disposable emails, at least temporarily?
>> 
>> Allen Li
>
>I'd prefer requesting a non-disposable mail address instead of adding
>captchas. Then again, you can also create disposable gmail accounts...
>
>-- 
>Maxime