Wiki account removal needed?

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 20:40:55 UTC 2009


On 09/23/2009 01:34 PM, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Looks like the user "Georgia10" just inserted spam on that page.
>> Aiyiyi.
> 
> What's our procedure for deleting/disabling a rogue FAS account?  It
> appears that the account in question was just created today, probably
> for the express purpose of spamming the wiki and then disappearing.  I
> would like to think that only a human could create an accounts,
> there's a variety of steps involved.  But maybe some sort of CAPTCHA
> on the signup page could reduce this in the future?
> 
We added a captcha last week so this is definitely a person or smarter
than average bot:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new

-Toshio




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