On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 13:28, Anne Wilson annew@kde.org wrote:
^_^ That would be our autoconfirmed feature... and guess what, spambots that know how to register, wait for the autoconfirmed time to elapse, and then come back, already exist. There are also ones that know how to confirm their own e-mail. And ones that know how to upload images.
Our sysadmin appears to be of the same opinion. That's sad. I had hoped that autoconfirm with a delay of only one day would be fine, especially if we blogged about contacting us on IRC to speed it up when necessary.
It might still be worth a try; even if it does not stop all spam, it could well stop a significant amount. You'd have to evaluate whether the amount of spam stopped is worth the extra inconvenience it'd cause for new genuine users, though.