[Qgis-psc] spam in Redmine :-(

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 11/30/2017 04:59 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 04:35:40PM +0100, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>> On 11/30/2017 04:16 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you think of a friendlier way for a user to be verified as
>>> trustworthy user ?
>>
>> I imagine a process like
>>
>> 1. Signup page
>> 2. Confirm email
>> 3. Report bug
>>
>> Just like with all the other web services out there.
> 
> That process does not include any "trustworthy verification".
> 
> Control over an email was proved to be not enough (all the
> spam we are getting is from people who verified their email).

If a) the possibility to move issue tracking to a managed platform is
excluded and b) the possibility to have a mantra-less osgeo signup
procedure (*) is excluded, I'm quite happy with what we currently have
on redmine and would propose to stick to this. We can dedicate the
resources which currently handle mantra-ing to jobs like blocking users
which have been identified as spammers.
Without having exact numbers, so far I'd say less effort has been bound
to cleaning up and blocking compared to answering mantras.

Bests
Mattias

(*) I won't follow further down the rabbit hole of discussing captchas
and the like, there are more skilled people than me out there


> 
> --strk;
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