Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Affordable/Low Income options: Crowd source article needed- A US Cohousing Wiki?

[Catya Belfer (catya]

Cohousing.org is a huge mostly international comment spammer target, and
has been for many years - it's a too large chunk of my job.  I use a bunch
of tools to deal with it (honeypot, mollom, ip range blocking).  Some of
those make it so that it's slow to get comments one writes to blog posts
out there, for which I apologize, and I've more than once caught up real
people as spammers by accident, for which I also apologize.

We're at hundreds of caught attempts per day now, which is better than over
a thousand a day, which is where we were a couple months ago, according to
the mollom stats.




     - cat

Catya Belfer   -  www.catya.org
Technical Director   -   www.cohousing.org
Cohousing in MA - www.mosaic-commons.org

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] 
sharonvillines.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Sep 25, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Catya Belfer <catya [at] pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > Given the giant spam problem on cohousing.org, I really wouldn't
> recommend
> > a wiki unless you had someone who could deal with it full time.
>
> I’m not advocating a wiki but curious to hear more about the spam on
> Cohousing.org.
>
> TakomaVillage does have a wiki on GoogleSites but it is only open to those
> in the community. Thus it doesn’t have a problem with spam.
>
> I still favor emails for discussion. The problem with compiling
> information is that it changes so quickly and is totally different from one
> state to another and one program to another and one bank to another. It
> would take a huge amount of research to post all the information that might
> be helpful. Then it will be out of date.
>
> The best form of information is to consult  _current_ websites and current
> discussions. Asking questions of peers. And local experts.
>
> Email works best for forming a network of information because it is
> immediate and reaches everyone instantly. And on a large list, people
> respond instantly.
>
> Another source of information is neighborhood lists. I moderate a
> neighborhood list with going on 3000 members. There are all kinds of people
> on the list, including people who know about banks and work for city
> agencies. The ward councilperson monitors it and forwards emails to
> appropriate city agencies. You can literally ask about anything and get an
> answer. (I once asked about why it was so quiet after a big snow and got an
> answer from a scientist at the University of Maryland who was pleased that
> someone finally asked a question he could answer.)
>
> But information gets old fast these days. Storing it becomes an exercise
> in futility unless you have a big staff.
>
> Sharon
> ----
> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
>
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