[seam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (JBSEAM-4501) Wiki registration spam protection

[Christian Bauer (JIRA)]

     [ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-4501?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Christian Bauer closed JBSEAM-4501.
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    Fix Version/s: 2.2.1.CR1
       Resolution: Done


> Wiki registration spam protection
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>
>                 Key: JBSEAM-4501
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-4501
>             Project: Seam
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Wiki
>            Reporter: Christian Bauer
>            Assignee: Christian Bauer
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.2.1.CR1
>
>
> We have to deal with registration spamming on sfwk.org: Bots from the Philippines and India are registering many accounts only to put their spam URLs into the user profile fields. So far we monitor registration via e-mail notification and delete these accounts manually. (After analyzing these requests I have to assume that these are not even robots but paid humans, because I can't imagine someone writing a really perfect robot for our little website, breaking the custom CAPTCHA, faking JSF requests, etc.)
> A better solution would be to only allow users who participated on the forum/comments to even see or edit these profile fields that accept HTML (user bio, signature). In fact, we have been running with this change for a few weeks now and it significantly reduces the amount of spam registrations. Cleanup and commit.

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