Re: Open Source, Cold Shoulder (fwd)

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Brian Behlendorf writes:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 October 2004 16:44, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote:
> >
> >> In the end, the majority of the 99% must adjust to the 1% of idiots.
> >
> > Hmmm.... At a 2 magnitude superiority in manpower, the majority is unable to
> > keep them in check, and weed them out? Is that a matter of lack of tools, or
> > doesn't the majority care?
> 
> You can weed them out... but they can come back too, under a different 
> name.  The Apache wiki defacement was done by spammers and by one person 
> who just wanted to see the goatse picture... but all anonymous save for an 
> IP address.  Defacement and repair is tolerable when we're talking about 
> text content, whether it's our documentation or Wikipedia; but it's not 
> tolerable when we're talking about code, despite the peer review that 
> commits (usually) get.

As a datapoint -- we (SpamAssassin) have seen no defacements *at all*
since enforcing user accounts on our Wiki as a requirement to edit pages.
A small stumbling block, and an email address requirement, seems to go
a long way to avoid the bad 1%.

- --j.
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