A bit of a moan, but I need some advice.
Currently https://openbenches.org allows *anyone* to upload a bench & photo without registration.
It has been mostly fine but yesterday an anonymous user added some stupid photos. Only the 4th time that's happened.
I wanted to restrict adding & editing to registered users. But today a GitHub user went in and deliberately vandalised one of the entries.
The users have been banned and the changes reverted.
Is there a realistic way to stop this?
@Edent terrible people ruin it for everyone!
My suggestion is to reduce authentication options, and use social stats to determine if the user needs moderation or not. also give different weights to different platforms
i.e. if they connected LinkedIn and have > 100 followers then no moderation, X then 200, Github 10 contributions and must be over a period etc
ugh, spam is an industry
I remember years ago a group of users used our service to coordinate twitter attacks by creating massive threads (at the time, we were the only service that lets you schedule threads), dozens of accounts creating 100+ post threads of , so it's thousands of spam tweets/second
The result? We limited threads to only 10 posts in the free plan and the service sucked for all free users...
Few rotten applies just had to ruin it for everyone else
Terence Eden
Samir Al-Battran
Mike