On 4/10/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
FWIW, Anons are not a real spam liability.. anyone
competent enough
to be a significant annoyance is able to make an account.
Ok, replace "anon" with some risk-based metric.
The template solution you've proposed is
effectively an extension to
the wikitext syntax... I don't see a reason to overload the template
system for that purpose... just extend the syntax if thats what we
really want.
Is it? I'm seeing how much we can do without having to get a developer
to do anything :)
Perhaps,
alternatively, devise a mechanism whereby URLs automatically
become "follow" links after some time period, like 5 days.
"And then a miracle occurs"... Making that scale will be a challenge.
...and still doesn't cover the cases of spam on namespaces that get
less attention.
True.
Steve