[IAEP] ASLO Reviews

[Jim Simmons]

Aleksey,

I would agree that checking the user agent is not the best idea.  I'd
go for a more conventional spam-prevention technique, like making the
user do a simple arithmetic problem.  Just as long as its enough to
discourage spammers but not annoying to commenters.

James Simmons

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 05:37:49PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > My guess is that we get few reviews because you need to create an
>> > account on ASLO before you can do it.  A normal Activity user has no
>> > other use for such an account.  If you could post a review without
>> > logging in perhaps more people would do it.
>>
>> If the Browse user agent string is present, we could allow posting a
>> review without logging in.  (Maybe even use the user's Sugar Nick if
>> that is available to the server)
>>
>> I bet that would be enough to stop casual spam, but I don't know how
>> much work it would take to implement on the ASLO side.
>
> do you mean sugar <=> aslo account integration
> or just checking useragent string for spam detecting?
> (if sugar will be so popular and spammers will use sugarized useragent
> string, we won't change useragent too fast :)
>
>> > I'd love to see more reviews of my own Activities, even really
>> > negative ones.  I've gotten some pretty good download numbers but
>> > without feedback the numbers don't seem real to me.
>>
>> Yeah, same here.
>>
>> Best,
>> Wade
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> Aleksey
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