Re: wiki "abuse"

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Aug 10, 2010, 18:56 UTC
Message-ID: <82F81B53-008D-4F3B-9692-DFC2963C4824@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikbOjy-8ViJnUJ1cg4Zm-XQyhP4e_hW8u1xxbDU@mail.gmail.com>

El 10/08/2010, a las 12:46, John Tapsell escribió:

Show 13 quoted lines

> On 10 August 2010 08:18, A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Everyone else: Most of this thread was/is well intentioned but there is a
>> significant problem with spam on high profile wiki sites (like ours) and the
>> information readily available (from what I've read on this thread) to the
>> _volunteer_ wiki admin slash spam fighter fit the pattern of a spammer. If
>> you believe that Johannes is not doing an acceptable job policing the wiki
>> _AND_ you are willing and able to do the job then speak up with that
>> information.
> 
> The problem though is that Johannes does not see anything wrong with
> his actions.  It's not like it was just a mistake, but he is pretty
> much saying that he will repeat his behavior of banning people for
> asking polite questions.

Seriously, Dscho is serving as a wiki gardener as a volunteer, on his own time, for the good of the community. He is not being paid to do it, and in order for him to keep his daily gardening down to a few minutes' work, it's quite reasonable of him to make rapid assessments of edits and then decide what to do about it.

Completely unknown stranger walks in (never posted to Git mailing list, never submitted a patch) and the first thing he does is set up a user page with links back to his own site, which happen to be of a trollish nature. Dscho quite reasonably identifies it as likely spam, trolling or otherwise undesirable content, and deletes and bans. I would have done the same thing.

If the user in question really does have legit contributions to make, he'll come here and ask about getting unbanned, which is what this guy did, surprisingly. Having read the guy's blog post, however, I seriously doubt that he has anything useful to add to the wiki. Let him contribute something useful here first (ie. patches, or answering user questions) and he'll have proved himself to be something other than what he appears to be (a troll).