On Wednesday 26 January 2005 3:19 am, Cees de Groot wrote:
> > These bot-driven defacements are EASY to fix(*).
>
> If they're really bot-driven, they're even easier to prevent, I think. Add
>   a gif-with-numbers (should be easy enough to create a Squeak snippet to
> generate that) for human-presence confirmation on edits, and add
> 'rel="nofollow"' to all the links and prominently display that fact on the
> edit page (actually, I have mixed feelings about that latter bit as well).

Another strategy is to redirect people making edits with more than (say) 4 
external links via another page that then would require some interaction, or 
login, or something else. Bots won't bother.

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Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/