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[Kristina Hoeppner <1250641@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We might also need to restrict with whom probationary users can share
their pages. Instead of using forums, they could create pages and make
those avaialble to individual users. I guess this could fall a bit into
your scenario of preventing spammers to send many messages at once.

The same would go for sending messages to individual users.

Human moderation could be a possibility for forum posts, but would not
work for user account creation. I've been spending about 1-1.5 hours
each day dealing with new accounts. If we simply approved them it would
be much less, but since we require users to provide a reason, I see why
they sign up and thus actually let them know which Mahara instance they
should be using for their uni work instead, ask who their lecturer is so
I can get in touch with them. It is primarily students who request a
login because their lecturer said they should. However, they don't
always check the URL they should use correctly or are just told "Mahara"
and then end up on mahara.org. So I'm not just looking out for spam
accounts during the approval, but do a qualified approval process which
in the long-run is better for the institutions using Mahara as they'll
actually be able to have their users on their instances. Since we don't
have a global Mahara instance for all and mahara.org is for discussions
but not individual portfolios, I feel I have to do the qualified
approval / denial as long as we require account confirmation.

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Title:
  [ongoing] mahara.org forum spam

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Mahara gets a steady annoying flow of forum spam. On a typical day
  it's 5 to 10 messages. This isn't a whole lot, but since the number of
  messages on mahara.org's forums is fairly low, this makes up about 40%
  of the messages each day.

  I'm opening this bug to explore options to deal with this issue.

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