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Posted Jul 30, 2010 4:41 UTC (Fri) by avik (guest, #704)
Parent article: On comment spam

Tried and true. But instead of typing in a couple of words scanned from a book, point commenters at a random bug from bugzilla.kernel.org and require it to be resolved before posting. This will increase both the quality of lwn.net comments and the kernel it is covering.


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Posted Jul 30, 2010 11:03 UTC (Fri) by Oddscurity (guest, #46851) [Link]

Alternatively: "Before you can post, please write a driver for [remaining piece of closed hardware, from e.g. an Android phone] and get it accepted to mainline." or "Before you can post, please persuade [company x] to release full documentation on [chipset y] without the requirement on an NDA. Bonus: Free 1 year subscription if you can get NVIDIA to release docs for all their hardware."

But seriously, I think the best way to handle this is via a 'report spam' button, as outlined in other comments.

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