Re: [Lmms-users] Spam on website - help!

[Jonathan A. <eag...@gm...>]

Captcha to sign up will make it a million times harder for spam bots to 
sign up.

On 3/6/11 9:30 AM, Paul Wayper wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> We've got a problem on the website - spammers are hitting it harder and
> harder.  I've just removed all the content from seven or eight pages - random
> content with a link to their spammed site, to make it look like a 'real'
> review page.  They also love the image uploader.  Every single one is from a
> user that has been freshly created, usually less than a day before.
>
> IMO we need to either tighten the user creation process or disable new page
> creation to new users, at least in the short term.  We can't keep on waiting
> for wiki admins to delete these pages and remove the spam.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
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