On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alternatively, we can do a little better than "anonymous" be > re-enabling registration on the Trac site. > > Trac has an "authenticated" role, for users who have passed > authentication but nothing else. That sounds OK. > For now we can at give merely > authenticated users zero privileges (besides maybe voting) and upgrade > them to more privileged users (can comment, etc.) if they are trusted. > If it helps, I can at least add a captcha to the registration page so > we don't get cluttered with (as many) spam users who otherwise can't > do anything. > > Dima also mentioned adding OpenID authentication which is a > possibility, but more effort. Back when we had easy registration -- without a human manual verification process -- we would nearly instantly get massive amounts of horrible spam, and cleaning them up in trac used to be hard because you couldn't edit/delete comments easily. A captcha or OpenID would not have prevented that at all. I don't know if things are better now and there are less such spammers. At least now you can easily delete trac comments to clean up after a spammer. -- William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
