Austrian Economics Wiki:Combating spam

Mises Wiki anti-spam configuration settings have been significantly loosened up in order to minimize inconvenience and impediments to potentially good editors. A possible side effect of this is that spamming may become easier. The changes and the reasoning behind them is as follows:

CAPTCHA

Asirra has proven to be the most effective CAPTCHA available; now that the bugs have apparently been worked out of it, it poses no hindrance to new users creating accounts and editing. Users will have to solve a CAPTCHA to create an account or to make an edit that adds external links until they are autoconfirmed.

Autoconfirmation

Users become autoconfirmed 24 hours after their first edit. Hopefully that will give us enough time to assess whether the user is likely to be a good contributor or not; if he immediately linkspams, as most spammers do, then we know to block him indefinitely.