Timeline for Do we need(or is it even possible) to prevent suggested edits from anonymous users?
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| Dec 22, 2013 at 20:17 | comment | added | TrailRider | I don't want to start a whole new discussion or a flame war, but, I also tend to avoid ubuntuforums as well, while it's not spam it's hard to sort through 5 pages of useless discussion looking for some useful info. I only include this as a contrast to show how good(more useful) I think AU is compared to any other site I use and as a testimony to the designers of AU as well as the community at large of how good of a job they are doing, not as a slam to the ubuntuforums, they do provide useful info, I just have a harder time using them.... | |
| Dec 22, 2013 at 20:13 | comment | added | TrailRider | Yes I have seen other sites and the spam on them, which is why I tend to avoid them. I think I read somewhere on AU(can't find it now of course) that part of our philosophy is that user reg. is not required so that would be out anyway so I was not suggesting it, good point about spam reg. BTW. | |
| Dec 22, 2013 at 20:03 | history | edited | Thomas WardMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2013 at 20:03 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | @TrailRider Ultimately, so long as the community keeps doing its job, there's no need to reject anonymous edits. As well, some anonymous edits are actually OK, so... | |
| Dec 22, 2013 at 20:02 | comment | added | Thomas Ward Mod | @TrailRider This isn't isolated to Ask Ubuntu, have you ever seen any other forum sites that aren't moderated, and seen how much spam those get? It's the same spambots. The problem is there's no way to prevent, and this is mitigated by the community doing its job and reviewing edits. You're right, edit spam is a new thing, but there's no way to block anon edits or posts, if we required users to register, the user database would expand exponentially too (case in point, forums which require registrations to post, and get a billion spam user registrations) | |
| Dec 22, 2013 at 20:00 | vote | accept | TrailRider | ||
| Dec 22, 2013 at 20:00 | comment | added | TrailRider | I suspected that prevention was nearly impossible(hence the subtitle of the question). I was just curious if this was an ongoing problem that I just haven't encountered before or something new that needed to be dealt with. You answered both quite well, TY. I have seen quite a few instances of spam being posted as answer or questions, an knew that those are impossible to prevent and can only be mitigated by requiring a user to register before posting... | |
| Dec 22, 2013 at 19:46 | history | answered | Thomas WardMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |