Hi,
On 20.11.2012 12:46, tj wrote:
Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts on a ML?
Temporarily or permanently, I don't know.
Any Administrator ("sysop") can create a new user account. I will research what
change is required to block other sign-up methods.
Currently, Mwiki is under massive attack by spammers. Thanks to the valiant
efforts of volunteers Adailton, Helen russian, Pitonyak, and Yak, we are staying
even: the lifetime of spam may be a few hours, but is usually only a few
minutes.
However, the spammers are creating new spam accounts (the pattern in the names
is quite apparent) at a rate of one every minute or two, and 24/7. We cannot
survive that kind of onslaught indefinitely.
To be continued.
From my point of view in such a situation we should not wait for 72 hours (lazy
consensus time) for appropriate actions to protect our assets.
Thus, +1 from my side.
The change will hurt new Mwiki users, but it seems to be needed to protect our
Mwiki.
Best regards, Oliver.
/tj/
