Auteur: Luke-Jr Datum: Aan: System undo crew Onderwerp: Re: [unSYSTEM] the bitcoin wiki
On Sunday, December 01, 2013 12:42:12 PM Jorge Timón wrote: > I don't contribute to that wiki since I was required to pay to do so.
At the time the 0.01 BTC enablement was added, it was a trivially small
amount. I've pushed MagicalTux to reduce the amount a number of times, but he
hasn't done so yet.
> If the one-time contribution fee hasn't stopped spam maybe the wiki
> should go back to captcha.
It pretty much works perfectly against spam (though scammers still get through
in hopes of profiting more).
> What prevents a robot to pay the fee once and spam teras?
It gets banned.
As I see it, BitcoinPayment antispam has two problems: 1) the cost is too high
now, and 2) it kills off minor contributors (eg, the hardware comparison
list).