[OSM-talk] Spam on Diaries

[Tom Hughes]

Roman Neumüller wrote:

>> Do you have some suggestions? It's hard to see what we can do about this 
>> sort of (presumably manual) spamming where people are prepared to go to 
>> the trouble of registering and confirming an account beyond deleting the 
>> accounts.
> 
> Good would be something like
> * wordpress akismet plugin,

If we were running wordpress that might be an excellent idea.

> * added captcha or
> * if with link do it simply as in osm-wiki

Give that the spam appears to be manual it's not clear that either of 
these would help - both are aimed at combating bot spam.

Tom

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