On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:22:52PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Jon Stanley wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > > Looks like the user "Georgia10" just inserted spam on that
page.
> > > Aiyiyi.
> >
> > What's our procedure for deleting/disabling a rogue FAS account? It
> > appears that the account in question was just created today, probably
> > for the express purpose of spamming the wiki and then disappearing. I
> > would like to think that only a human could create an accounts,
> > there's a variety of steps involved. But maybe some sort of CAPTCHA
> > on the signup page could reduce this in the future?
> >
>
> Well,
>
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem#Account_Termin...
>
> Clearly states "malicious usage" as grounds for termination. What was
the
> page in question?
The OP was snipped out:
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=FUDCon:Berlin_2009&action...
It won't help with users with actual accounts but I've enabled a
basic captcha for anonymous edits.
-Mike