Hi,
I installed OpenID to try to keep my wiki as open as possible while hoping to stop spam. (Since the 'human spambot' attack earlier this year, I've changed from my 'captcha all anonymous and no registered edits' strategy).
However, I'm now seeing spam from people logging in to my wiki using Google OpenID accounts, e.g.
http://metadatabase.org/wiki/User:Mykaila298
How can I report these accounts to Google?
I think OpenID is a great way to consolidate identities across multiple wikis, and to identify contributors semi-formally, however, if OpenID providers are easy for spammers to infiltrate, I'll have to rethink the whole approach.
Thanks for any suggestions. Dan.
* Dan Bolser wrote:
However, I'm now seeing spam from people logging in to my wiki using Google OpenID accounts, e.g.
http://metadatabase.org/wiki/User:Mykaila298
How can I report these accounts to Google?
The precise method does not matter as Google does not do anything to remove spammers from their services. A good example is for instance http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript which is full of Google porn and pill spam from Google users. abuse@google.com is the proper role account for reports if you feel strongly about wasting your time.
I think OpenID is a great way to consolidate identities across multiple wikis, and to identify contributors semi-formally, however, if OpenID providers are easy for spammers to infiltrate, I'll have to rethink the whole approach.
(Spammers can easily be their own OpenID provider.)
On 30/08/11 15:20, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
A good example is for instance http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript which is full of Google porn and pill spam from Google users.
Looks like this usenet forum should be moderated :-)
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
I think OpenID is a great way to consolidate identities across multiple wikis, and to identify contributors semi-formally, however, if OpenID providers are easy for spammers to infiltrate, I'll have to rethink the whole approach.
(Spammers can easily be their own OpenID provider.)
In which case the provider could Nuke by provider :) Just as many forums reject some common email providers (even though I don't consider that an acceptable solution).
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