http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33470
Kyle Auble kauble@lavabit.com changed:
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--- Comment #10 from Kyle Auble kauble@lavabit.com 2013-08-04 23:28:35 CDT --- Sorry to raise this bug from the dead, but I just wanted to nominate the manual request option for consideration one more time. I discussed the problem briefly on the mailing list: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2013-August/100681.html.
The new pages they create are trivial. The real problem is the regex filter gives false positives a lot. We could go through and make the patterns more precise, but there are always going to be weird cases. For example, I recently had to redo an edit because "another page" was detected as "her page." Then there are a few clever spammers that seem to know this so they vandalize our main pages (which are more likely to have a false positive that prevents reverting).
Fixing this actually takes a lot of time. Among other things, I'd have to clear out my browser cache and cookies, log back in to use the updated bad content list, revert the page, revert the bad content list to its original state, and only then could I correct the brittle regex. Also, I think a person or bot is monitoring the site because the one time I made the mistake of temporarily wiping LocalBadContent to allow a revert, we had a spam edit every couple of minutes.
Honestly, it makes me a little angry to think that most of our spammers are probably just poor peasants trying to supplement their income. Don't get me started on what it says about the modern economy that they're paid to do this instead of building themselves roads, factories, hospitals.... So yeah, I would definitely support account requests out of both convenience and principle.