Re: Here come the spammers!!!
The goal is to limit:
1) Spam PM’s
2) Spam friend requests
3) Spam comments
4) Spam group creation
5) Spam group posts
Once a spammer / troll / hostile has created a member account on the system.
The goal is NOT to stop:
6) Spam comments on blog posts from non-members.
-> Already handled by dozens of plugins
7) Spam in profile fields
-> Limited damage. Will be handled by @francescolaffi ‘s GSoC project
8 ) Spam blog creation
-> Limited damage. Will be handled by @francescolaffi ‘s GSoC project
9) Spam sign-ups
-> Impossibly hard target. The only effective countermeasure is phone verification + geo IP + proxy blacklist; as implemented by Craigslist, eBay, PayPal, Elance, and many others.
Full background on all this stuff in about an hour.
Thanks!
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