Maybe we could use the same mechanism to protect LW wiki from spambots. The wiki registration page would be available only to people with karma at least… well, 1 should be enough. Reaching karma 1 should be trivial for any LW member, and pretty difficult for a generic spambot.
I support this enough to make a comment in addition to upvoting. Whenever I check the wiki’s recent changes page, way too many of the recent changes are spambots creating accounts or Vladimir_Nesov killing them. As MixedNuts points out, the code end is difficult, but the fix would be highly appreciated.
One word: spambots.
Maybe we could use the same mechanism to protect LW wiki from spambots. The wiki registration page would be available only to people with karma at least… well, 1 should be enough. Reaching karma 1 should be trivial for any LW member, and pretty difficult for a generic spambot.
Technical difficulties of merging the two currently independent login systems.
I support this enough to make a comment in addition to upvoting. Whenever I check the wiki’s recent changes page, way too many of the recent changes are spambots creating accounts or Vladimir_Nesov killing them. As MixedNuts points out, the code end is difficult, but the fix would be highly appreciated.