On 2021-04-25 23:27, Lassi Kortela wrote:
>> Will there be a mechanism to control account creation and what will be
>> required to be “approved”?
>
> It's probably a good idea to require a known schemer to make accounts
> for new people. There could be a thread on the schemeorg mailing list
> where people who want an account could write a brief mail to introduce
> themselves (perhaps giving a link to Scheme code they have written
> elsewhere so that people know they care about Scheme, or if they know
> an existing schemer from some project, that could be stated).

That would be too much to ask. I prefer to be welcoming,
and assume most user come in good faith and do not plan
to abuse the system.

Keep an eye on usage and watch for abusers and / or enable payment.

All features require to login. I will investigate moderation tools.

>
> A similar problem exists with so-called pastebin sites, which are
> widely known to be abuse magnets unless they require a login. We
> decided against making paste.scheme.org for that reason. A git hosting
> site is not as prone to abuse, but the potential is still there.
> Perhaps we could even make a pastebin subdomain if it requires
> accounts made by similar criteria.
>
> Do SourceHut and/or GitLab have a pastebin-like feature? GitHub has
> gist.github.com which is a good implementation of the concept.

Here is an example paste:
https://paste.sr.ht/~amirouche/335d70abba3ac90b12f7dc6d7365e7509457976d

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