March 29, 2015
12:22 p.m.
Hi, Without a Trac account you can not create a new ticket or update wiki page. I just tried to create a new account named 'robot-spammer' and it looks like it would be extremely easy to automate the process. Observing notifications on IRC I saw that many spam comments were posted by dedicated spam accounts. Is there any effort in improving the registration process to prevent spam accounts being created in the first place? Email confirmation or reCAPTCHA or linking to external providers like GitHub? Rather than hunting spam comments I prefer to work on preventing those comments. Cheers, Adi