[pmwiki-users] This post has been blocked by the administrator
christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 03:14:15 CDT 2006
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Pico wrote:
> I got this message on a page and it took a bit of figuring out to figure
> out what was going on and how to work around it.
The same thing has happened to me once or twice. It does surprise you...
> I think it would be helpful for ordinary users to be presented with a
> more specific error message when their post is blocked due to the number
> of external links, and, perhaps, to be presented with a workaround, e.g.
> This post has been blocked by the administrator. Remove or disabled
> external links to continue.
>
> Now, of course, the argument against this is that it would also give
> guidance and assistance to spammers. Without that added information,
> their their immediate reaction might be like mine: oh #@$! I've been
> blocked as a spammer! If they receive more targeted information, then
> they may be tempted to follow the advice and continue with their
> spamming. Of course, as for the links themselves, they will never work,
> but I understand the concern here.
>
> What do you think?
I think we could at least say *why* the post was blocked. Perhaps saying
something along the lines of:
This post has been blocked by the wiki system since it resembles
spam.
I changed 'administrator' to 'system'... the first sounded too much to me
like a real person had actively blocked my post...
As for the argument about not giving information to the spammers, I don't
think it holds up really. The spammer could just google the web or search
this ML for information...
/Christian
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