====== wikispam ======

In the last days, I noticed some commentspam in my wiki. I think I'm fairly conservative with my acl settings in [[ http://wiki.tauware.de | tauwiki ]], and it used to work out quite reasonable.

In the last days and weeks, I noticed increasing commentspam. I'd rather not restrict commenting altogether, because I love good comments. However when the traffic of spam becomes bigger than the traffic of serious contributors, I'm beginning to rethink about it.

while going through my [[ doku>wiki:dokuwiki | dokiwiki ]] configuration, I noticed a file wordblock.conf, which includes a link to  http://blacklist.chongqed.org/. Unfortunately, my spammers have not been listed there yet. I didn't bother to submit them to http://chongqed.org/submit.html yet, because I didn't find a convinient link to the history of comment pages. They aren't available to unauthenticated users anyway, thanks to the [[ blog:blogplugin | blogplugin ]].

Searching the config file further, I found this setting: comment_allowguests. I decreased it to 3 days, so unauthenticated users can only comment to that story for 3 days, and after that, I require authentication. Let's see how this works out.

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