On 4/10/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@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