[TOS] Wiki cleanup status report

Chris Tyler chris at tylers.info
Wed Mar 9 01:56:32 UTC 2011


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





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