[Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

Sun Jul 1 05:57:36 UTC 2018

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 7:16 AM Niharika Kohli <nkohli at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 8:53 PM Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Unfortunately we are experiencing spam in our Phabricator instance
>> again and have decided to turn on the requirement for new account
>> approval by Phabricator admins as a mitigation step.
>>
>
> I'd request that it please be kept on until we have some spam mitigation
> tools. At the very least easier revert actions.
>
>
Indeed.
We should *not* remove the approval process until a better anti-vandalism
system is available for phabricator.

Repairing the damage that has been done will require a ton of man-hours.

Cheers,
Giuseppe
-- 
Giuseppe Lavagetto
Senior Technical Operations Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
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