wiki spam - captcha in launchpad?

[Cyrus Jones]

I agree. When I registered, I was surprised by the lack of a captcha.
It might have been changed since then, but I don't think a captcha
exists even now on Launchpad.

Cyrus Jones

On 5/15/08, Przemysław Kulczycki <przemekkulczycki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dougie Richardson pisze:
>
> >
> > > The spam bots are back, even though their accounts were deleted some
> time ago. And there are more of them (users and spam pages).
> > > See
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/26722
> > >
> >
> > I reported this to the website team a couple of weeks ago in
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-doc/+bug/224971 and
> have mailed
> > launchpad to ask for the account in launchpad to be deleted.
> >
> > This is still part of 302 attack that is not being addressed - there is
> > no point in deleting the pages in the wiki as long as the user name
> > exists in launchpad.
> >
> > The thing is that having looked through some of the spam, its malicious
> > (not to Ubuntu) and being returned higher in Google than most of our
> > genuine pages.
> >
>
>  Just few minutes after being deleted, the spam is getting back under new
> username and same page names.
>  Maybe Launchpad should have a captcha while registering a new account?
>  (I registered mine over 2 years ago so I don't remember if it changed)
>
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