The REAL "fancy pants"

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Theoretically the risk might seem quite high because it appears to be so easy.  

However, in practice, over the past year or so it would have typically taken 
less than an hour a fortnight or even just an hour a month to clear all the spam 
added during that time.  Almost all of the spam has been harmless and even 
laughable.  


I often take a bit longer because the pages are often quite interesting and can 
often be made a little prettier or easier to understand with "just one more 
tweak" or someone's done a bit of awesome wiki-mark-up worth copying to other 
pages.  


There is a Ben Franklin quote that is particularly apt about this sort of thing 
"Those who want security at the expense of freedom, deserve neither."  We might 
reach the point where we need to take unpleasant measures but we are not there 
yet and are quite a long way off needing anything drastic.
Regards from
Tom :)



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From: gord campbell <gordc2005 at velcom.ca>
To: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Mon, 15 August, 2011 20:21:03
Subject: Re: The REAL "fancy pants"

It takes about 10 minutes to sign up on Launchpad and begin editing the
Community Docs.

If I turn off my modem, then turn it back on again five minutes later, I
get a new IP address. There have been times when I got a vastly
different IP address, in a different county.

Regards, Gordintoronto


On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 at 12:55:59  Manjul Apratim wrote:

>Thanks for the clarification! My concern is this - if this user created
>a genuine Launchpad account merely to spam the documentation, and that
>too twice already, then that is one hell of an evil determination. In
>this case, can we not take more drastic steps to prevent such spam -
>like banning the user's ip address, or something of the like?





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