----- Original Message -----
From: "Earle Martin" <openguides(a)downlode.org>
To: <openguides-dev(a)openguides.org>
Sent: 03 August 2003 00:41
Subject: [OpenGuides-Dev] Autocreation and web robots
If you look at the RecentChanges for OG London,
you'll see it's filled with
dozens of category and locale autocreations. Because I don't think anyone
would be bored enough to do such a thing, I reckon it's a web robot of some
kind that's followed lots of links to nonexistent categories and
consequently brought them into existence.
Actually, I noticed the same thing. I would be inclined to suppress autocreates from the
front page, but make them still appear on
recent changes.
I think this exposes a vulnerability in the mechanism; numerous of the new
categories were erroneous.[0] I propose that autocreation be made a user
choice; namely, something like,
The category you selected does not exist, but we can
create it for you if you would like.
[Create Category]
with "Create Category" being a form submit button.
I have raised a bug on RT to cover this RT #3132.
Ivor.