[TOS] Wiki cleanup status report

Frederick Grose fgrose at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 02:04:20 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 20:45 -0500, Frederick Grose wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Gregory Hislop <hislopg at drexel.edu>
> >
> > I'm curious about this proposition:
> > If Captchas can be avoided by using OpenID, is that a more reasonable
> > alternative?
> >
> >
> > In my experience, the spamming stopped after requiring OpenID
> > authentication for new
> > users.
> >         --Fred
>
> I haven't found OpenID to be particularly user-friendly, and suspect
> some users may find it an insurmountable barrier (maybe I was just using
> a bad provider). However, if we could set up OpenID-or-captcha, that
> might work well.
>
> -Chris


See this page,
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:OpenIDLogin

<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:OpenIDLogin>Lot's of easy options for
many users.

      --Fred
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