On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 10/11/13 03:57, Nathan Larson wrote: > > Also, we have other antispam tools that are way more effective than > > nofollow at deterring spam. > > Like what? AbuseFilter is unusable for small wikis, SpamBlacklist is > poorly maintained, and FancyCaptcha is comprehensively broken -- we > have had reports of sites with FancyCaptcha being spammed to death. > Pretty much any captcha can be broken for $1.39 per 1000. You wouldn't > need very many impressions per edit for that to be economical. > Asirra works pretty well. I've never seen it fail to bring spam down to almost nil. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
