On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 01:16 -0500, Allen Li wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:30:05PM -0500, Limao Luo wrote: > >On 03/05/2013 11:21 PM, William Giokas wrote: > >>Captchas, man. Captchas. I know it will very very slightly inconvenience > >>some people that have to flag a few packages out of date at a time, but > >>really, it would only save us from crap like this. > >> > >Yeah, they mentioned that in the aur-dev conversation, among other > >ideas like IP blocking (which actually sounds good, except more than > >one person can have an IP, so I don't know how much that would work, > >unless there is some timeout period or something for the block) and > >repeatedly doubling intervals after successive flags that time out > >after an hour (which, while annoying, doesn't seem like an enough of > >a deterrent, but I could be wrong). > > > >Well, not much to do except wait it out, I guess. I just can't > >remember which packages I have to update now. > > Instead of captchas for flagging packages, do we have captchas for > creating new accounts already? That seems more sensible. Also, perhaps > blocking new accounts using disposable emails, at least temporarily? > > Allen Li
I'd prefer requesting a non-disposable mail address instead of adding captchas. Then again, you can also create disposable gmail accounts... -- Maxime
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