dz6g239@tuta.io wrote:
But please dont use freenode irc or any other IRC server that are blocking TOR users.
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Net neutrality is important. Please dont move coreboot into the situation that you cant register because of broken net neutrality.
This is a good point, thanks for bringing it up.
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat contradicts your claims.
Quoting that page, "The hidden service requires SASL authentication."
Requiring authentication clearly goes against the spirit of both Tor and net neutrality; so depending on freenode services to authenticate contributions turns out to be a bad idea.
But handling spam takes effort, which in turn takes (time || money), and there is no technical one-shot solution. At a minimum it requires recurring engineering on the order of a few days every few months.
There is indeed a tradeoff here, between accessibility and cost.
I would like a two-tier system of authenticated reviewers like on Wikipedia very much, and as a minimum-effort one-shot solution I think that would last the longest time, but it still needs to be implemented.
Wiki admins: Would that need more effort than IRC integration?
//Peter