how to disturb newbies

[Mark Wieder]

Richard-

Sunday, October 26, 2014, 10:49:51 AM, you wrote:

>> Right <cough> Something like <Wikipedia> that would never work <cough>

> That may point to an interesting direction:  what automated systems does
> Wikipedia employ to prevent spam?

Well, there are notifications, all entries are logged (text, date, ip
address), there's a web site that tracks the last several edits made,
but by and large if you see and entry that's wrong or needs some
clarification you can just edit it. If it rubs someone the wrong way,
it will get re-edited.

<Richmond's reply just came in while I was writing this>

I think we could easily cut down on spam edits by requiring logins to
edit, the way the web forum does. Or tie into the web login system if
that's feasible.

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-Mark Wieder
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