On 03/05/06, Neil Harris neil@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps we should again consider restricting uploads to accounts that are not "new", in the same sense used for the semi-protection mechanism, as per earlier discussion?
Yes, I confess that I can't think of many situations where a brand new account is going to be uploading something we badly need.
Of course, if we do do this, we should provide an alternative channel for those special cases, just as we did for article creation. Perhaps there could be an email address where images with source information could be sent, or a page where people can post links to their images, assuming they're on the web.
If our problem is a firehose of images coming in that we can't deal with, then it makes sense to restrict that to a more manageable stream until we can develop processes for dealing with massive unrestricted uploads.
Steve