Re: [WEBCHAT/IRC] Accessibility for noobs and devs who don't want to authnticate

> My concern would be that although at any given time there may not be a 
> spam
> campaign that we notice, it would require keeping a close eye on IRC 
> lest it be
> flooded when no one with the power to stop it is around. I know when we 
> enabled
> the option to require registration, Freenode was having a huge spam 
> attack.


> I've disabled the need to register for now and will keep an eye on 
> whether
> we're buried in spam.

> - Steve

What about creating a channel, say #freenet-turing, and letting anyone 
join there?

Then, when spam hits, you lock the ordinary channels, and if someone 
wants to post they first have to say hello in #freenet-turing. Then an 
oper PMs them and does a brief ten second Turing test.

You could also restrict yourself to requiring voice to post and only 
giving voice to registered users, unregistered users who passed the 
test, or unregistered users who posted normal messages when it was open. 
That's a bit more polite, I think.

Of course, a spammer could still spam #freenet-turing. But it'd take 
some amount of creativity, and all it'd accomplish would be to block 
registrations for the time being.