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| ::::Btw, I followed you on Twitter...though I see you haven't used it lately, lol ;-) - [[User:X loto|X loto]] 21:48, 12 April 2012 (UTC) | | ::::Btw, I followed you on Twitter...though I see you haven't used it lately, lol ;-) - [[User:X loto|X loto]] 21:48, 12 April 2012 (UTC) |
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− | == Spam >_< ==
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− | I haven't stopped in for a couple months (blame Xenoblade ;-), and when I came back to check it out every edit has been just spam. Is there no way to block unregistered users from spamming edits? Perhaps there isn't, or perhaps you just decided you'd prefer not to go that route, but there's been so much of this going on that it must be hard for you (or at the very least annoy the hell out of you) to keep up with cleaning all that mess.... - [[User:X loto|X loto]] 03:18, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
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− | :It's annoying, but so far it's been rare. That's actually the first large-scale attack I've seen; until now it's only been a couple of pages at most. I always check "Recent changes" every few days (often every day) even if I'm not doing anything else on the site, so it's unlikely spam will stay up for too long. As for how to prevent it... I'm not sure. Forcing user registration won't prevent spam since unregistered users already have to answer a captcha, and anyone who can answer a captcha can register. For now I'll just clean it up when it happens and I'll revisit the issue if it becomes a real problem... - [[User:furrykef|furrykef]] ([[User talk:furrykef|Talk at me]])
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− | ::There has to be a way to ban this idiot. - [[User:X loto|X loto]] 13:15, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
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− | :::Yeah, I'm tired of him too. I could just ban the IP, but I hate IP banning because the IP could belong to someone else later on and it will likely just change anyway. Maybe I'll try changing the captchas and see if that trips 'em up. - [[User:furrykef|furrykef]] ([[User talk:furrykef|Talk at me]]) 16:19, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
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− | ::::The problem seems to be that the captcha is not working for edits from anon IPs at all. The captcha question is not being asked and the edit goes through without a hitch. I probably need to upgrade the relevant plugins... - [[User:furrykef|furrykef]] ([[User talk:furrykef|Talk at me]]) 04:08, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
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− | :::::...It may be time to block that IP. He might move to another, and someone else may get his and have to contact you to get access to editing, but it's really ridiculous. By the way, it's me, X. I forgot to log in.--[[Special:Contributions/98.87.106.73|98.87.106.73]] 22:33, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
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− | ::::::Most of the spam now is from creating accounts, and I don't have the IP addresses for those accounts (though I could get them from server logs if I want to... after I start logging things in the first place). I still want to try other measures first... I just haven't gotten around to it... - [[User:furrykef|furrykef]] ([[User talk:furrykef|Talk at me]]) 05:26, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
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