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

[Ineiev]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 11:28:41AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> 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?

No idea; perhaps comparable to the bookmarks.

> > 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.

If exactly nothing happens, we may as well remove the account
irrespectively of the intentions.

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