Re: Interactive docs comment submissions

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Magnus Hagander
> Sent: 20 September 2006 11:27
> To: PostgreSQL WWW
> Subject: [pgsql-www] Interactive docs comment submissions
>
> Hi!
>
> Just did a process of pending comments. Things are definitely getting
> worse and worse - I'd say we're now far below a 1:50 rate of
> comments vs
> spam. We need to do something. We've previously tacked
> captcha. I would
> like to propose something that's a lot easier - let's require a
> "community login" to submit a comment (same thing you'd need to
> submit/edit pages on techdocs). The only question is will
> this raise the
> bar so far we don't get *any* comments anymore, or will it
> raise it just
> enough so we get rid of the spam? I'd be willing to give it a try at
> least. Implementing it should be trivial, since the login
> system is made
> as a module on the site designed to plug in wherever needed.
>
> Thoughts on this? Should we give it a shot?

Agreed, we need to do something, and in lieu of a better idea a
community login seems like a good idea.

What worries me more is the amount of load the server is handling
because of this garbage - if the system is working as planned, we're not
even seeing much of the spam because the regexp filters will be
rejecting it. Each one still requires php and postgresql resources to be
processed though.

/D