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:: I don't have an opinion on the ip blocking strategy. The problem with the current setup is that you need to delete active links as soon as possible to avoid them being spidered. With rel=nofollow in place there's less time pressure on the admins. If the guy is truly malicious then, in my experience, only post screening of new users would be effective anyway. [[User:Fwend|Fwend]] ([[User talk:Fwend|talk]]) 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Would it perhaps be an idea to disable account creation, and in stead invite new contributors to drop us a line, and tell us a bit about their interests / background in programming (without demanding sensitive information like real name and such)? [[User:Fwend|Fwend]] ([[User talk:Fwend|talk]]) 15:57, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
== Random ideas - viability hypothetical. ==
It seems to me that the RC is just collateral damage of a spammers spambot. i.e. The Spammer has a spamscript, and they merely entered "rosettacode.org" as a target and whamo... RC has screeds of fake spam-users...
Is it possible to hook into "wikipedia" or "stackoverflow" or "linkedin" some other collaborative web site, and ensure they candidate RC contributors are somehow bona-fide there? (e.g. a +1000 rating) Or have a "staging" RC where their contributions are "supervised" somehow for 10 contributions.
Or maybe charge them a small fee for their first 10 contributions, eg $10 each. Which is refundable after the tenth contribution by "royal decree" ( TimToady, Mwn3d, Paddy3118 or ShortCircuit etc) OR via a RC member plebiscite?
Just putting it out there... [[User:NevilleDNZ|NevilleDNZ]] ([[User talk:NevilleDNZ|talk]]) 08:09, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
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