Community Help Wiki locked down

Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunnarhj at ubuntu.com
Wed Jan 13 16:15:48 UTC 2016


On 2016-01-13 16:57, Peter Matulis wrote:
> On 13 January 2016 at 10:33, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com
> <mailto:gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2016-01-13 00:55, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
>     > Anything else? At the end of the week, I'll update the ticket with IS
>     > with our ideas and they can look into it.
> 
>     The best solution I can think of is that Canonical somehow makes sure
>     that only humans can create LP accounts. Enabling this for all accounts
>     is probably easier than the approach you mention in your #3 suggestion,
>     and would at the same time prevent spam bot editing of bug reports (and
>     maybe some other bad stuff which I'm not aware of).
> 
> Just include a captcha on Launchpad's new user page. Am I missing something?

No, that's what I had in mind. Or possibly some email confirmation thing.

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