I'm on several mailing lists and forums. For the mailing list you have to register with your email address, also a password if you want to be able to edit your profile. For forums you have to provide a login name and a password if you want to post to the forum. Just what is the problem in having to provide login details to post to a wiki? Personally I'm sick of the stuff that comes into the mailbox. Viagra, Penis extensions, You've won the lottery (6 times in the last month) . Why should we leave the door open on the wiki so that this scum can just walk in and corrupt the wiki pages, just so someone doesn't have to spend 10 or 20 seconds logging in to edit the pages?And after all, it only takes 10 or 20 seconds to login. I use the same login and password for all the forums I'm subscribed to, unless the login name is already taken. Then I have an alternative. Forums are not a high security risk, but it's certainly better to have the need to register rather than leaving the door wide open, and having every joe scumbag wandering in and corrupting someones genuine contribution to a wiki, forum, or whatever. Nigel. On Sunday 28 Aug 2005 6:21 pm, Esben Stien wrote: > Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > you know how to solve the spam problem without requiring > > registration? > > Wikipedia seems to be doing great. As long as you have an history > option to roll back and a mechanism to detect and temporarily ban ip's > based on anomaly behavior, like updating 30 pages in 2 seconds, I > think a wiki works. > > If I look at f.ex the page for synthesis and I see viagra there, I'll > just revert the page to whatever suits me and the next person will see > the page as that. There is really no maintenance to a wiki. > > I don't want to come off rude and I can't say that I've tried myself > to run a wiki, but it surely seems to be possible, thinking about all > the public wikis' I've visited. > > A wiki that requires registration hurts us more than spam, in my > opinion.
