[Bug web/72856] Trottle bug creation for newly created accounts (to limit spam)

[manu at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=72856

Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Frédéric Buclin from comment #0)
> GCC Bugzilla suffered vandalism again between July 25 and 27. 709 spam bugs
> have been filed during this 48 hours window. 103 different email addresses
> have been used to avoid being blocked too quickly. This gives a ratio on
> average of 7 spam per account.

I wonder about the effort required to do such a thing. Some of those emails
seem fake, is there some kind of confirmation email for newly created accounts?

Limiting the number of bug reports per new account seems a good measure, but
also easily circumvented as long as someone can create as many new users as
they wish and each user stays below the limit.