Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Remove resume feature to prevent abuse?

[Bob Proulx]

Ineiev wrote:
> Thank you, yesterday I disabled it for the new users until they are
> accepted as members in any group (the skillset is still permitted).

That seems like a reasonable compromise.  If at least they must be
part of any group in order to have a visible resume.  However even in
that case is the resume feature useful?

> The next thing is accounts like <petshop-tokio>. they setup no resume,
> perhaps those who create them hope that people will use the contact
> form to email them (even though one have to login in order to contact
> them), or they think that having just "realname + user_name" on some
> web page is sufficient. removing idle accounts is the only idea how
> to counter them I have.

I am not sure what can or should be done about idle accounts.  Many
people make an account with the best intentions.  But then nothing
further happens.  I don't think that is an abuse in the general case.
I am sure there are accounts created only for the purpose of abuse but
how does one distinguish between the two cases?  That's the problem.

Bob