[IAEP] ASLO Reviews

Aleksey Lim alsroot at member.fsf.org
Mon Nov 30 21:44:42 EST 2009


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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