# Down with Spam

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/down-with-spam/68080>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [September 9, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/down-with-spam/68080 "2006-09-09T00:01:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/down-with-spam/68080/1 "2006-09-09T00:01:14Z")

</div>

If you’ve been browsing the Trac site today you may have noticed that  
we’ve installed a few plugins to make it more difficult for people to  
create ticket spam.

**You are now required to register in order to submit tickets.** You can  
still browse the site without logging in, but if you create or change a  
ticket you will need to be logged in.

Hopefully, this will mean an end to the spam and I can spend the time  
doing more productive things like developing Radiant.

We’ve left the wiki open to the public at this point. I hope it can stay  
that way. To date, the wiki spam has been relatively minimal. It seems  
that most trac spammers are focused on tickets. Not sure why, but if the  
situation changes we will need to require a login for the wiki, too.

Props to Nathaniel T. who installed the plugins and got it all  
working.

–  
John L.  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com)