Sun 19 May 2019 4:29PM
How to handle lots of spam sign ups?
I think we should stop new sign ups at least temporarily. Also see https://git.fosscommunity.in/community/poddery.com/issues/32
Poll Created Sun 19 May 2019 4:30PM
Stop new sign ups temporarily Closed Wed 22 May 2019 4:01PM
Outcome
We can stop new sign ups temporarily and figure out ways to stop spammers in the meantime.
I think we need to stop new sign ups temporarily and figure out a way to stop spam sign ups permanently.
Results
Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 100.0% | 3 |
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Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
Undecided | 0% | 50 |
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3 of 53 people have participated (5%)
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Anish Sheela
Sun 19 May 2019 4:34PM
Yes. Have to handle spam. Else it will affect real users too.
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Juan Santiago
Sun 19 May 2019 6:51PM
ok, this must be sustainable
Pirate Praveen Sat 8 Jun 2019 1:17PM
Diaspora HQ suggested disabling http 1.0 stopped spam sign ups, we could try that.
Pirate Praveen Tue 11 Jun 2019 12:44PM
After http 1.0 was disabled, the spam sign ups have stopped for now. We will have to now think about cleaning up existing spam accounts.
Bady · Tue 28 May 2019 7:08PM
i think we could try setting captcha image_style to
almost_invisible
? we've already setdistortion
ashigh
.