[Tilesathome] Distributed server idea

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> But many (most?) forums, wikis etc have some sort of anti-spam  
> measure,
> because if they don't, spammers will use bots to post *lots* of spam.

If Wikipedia has anti-spam measures in place, they are at least not  
directly visible: You do not have to create an account; you do not  
have to ask for the right to contribute; you do not have to GPG-sign  
your contributions.

I believe they will have loads of tools to help find spam that has  
entered the system and remove it, but to the normal contributor this  
does not cause a barrier.

If we can employ such types of spam protection, that's fine with me.  
I hope you see the difference. I want to assume that every user is  
well-meaning and only do something if they aren't, instead of  
subjecting every well-meaning user to anti-spam procedures. Wikipedia  
does this quite well it seems.

> I honestly don't know if GPG signing would help prevent that or
> not

GPG signing will not prevent the uploading of spam, it will only make  
sure that you can eliminate the account responsible *after* the  
damage has been done. Obviously you hope that spammers will not go  
through the effort of asking for accounts in the first place.

The problem with established anti-spam measures is that they usually  
rely on determining whether there's a human being at the other end,  
and if yes, their data is accepted; however we *want* to accept auto- 
generated data, so existing "captchas" and so on won't do us any good.

Bye
Frederik

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