User talk:IanOsgood

Your user page looks corrupted to me. Can you see it/edit it fine? --Short Circuit 00:13, 13 October 2007 (MDT)

N/m. Fixed the problem; The page cache got corrupted somehow. --Short Circuit 01:30, 13 October 2007 (MDT)

Thought I'd fixed it, anyway. I can make changes to this talk page, but I can't see them. Not sure what's going on yet. --Short Circuit 01:32, 13 October 2007 (MDT)

No idea: it all looks good to me. --IanOsgood 09:53, 13 October 2007 (MDT)

By the way, have you seen Help:Similar Sites? --Short Circuit 01:30, 13 October 2007 (MDT)

Yeah, it is already linked from my page, and I've added a few more links to it. :) --IanOsgood 09:53, 13 October 2007 (MDT)

User spam

The reason you're seeing user spam is because, in order to present captchas to all anonymous editors without also presenting captchas to all logged-in editors, I needed to remove the captchas for all logged-in users. What you're seeing are bots that have, up until now, been blocked by the URL captcha trigger. Since the logged-in users no longer get captchas when they post URLs, logged-in bots are posting their linkspam. When the username looks random like that, it's probably autogenerated; Don't feel bad about blocking for six months or more. And please set the option for automatically blocking subsequent login IPs. --Short Circuit 21:35, 17 October 2007 (MDT)

Yes, that option is checked by default. --IanOsgood 23:16, 17 October 2007 (MDT)

Great. The nice thing is, the more times the bots try to log in using a banned account, the more bad IPs get blocked. (I'm fairly sure most of the bad IPs are from Tor nodes.) --Short Circuit 23:20, 17 October 2007 (MDT)

Forth

Would you be interested in writing a Forth implementation of RCBF? Mwn3d is working on a Java version. I'm hoping someone writes a version in Lisp or Haskell. --Short Circuit 20:11, 26 November 2007 (MST)