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==Done?==
It looks like it's done for now. Did anyone do anything or did they just give up? --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 18:25, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
== Block anon users from uploading images? ==
We've just had another influx of spam, this time from (a) non-logged-in user(s?) with many IP addresses, all within the USA. (Yay for http://ip-lookup.net/ which makes confirming this sort of thing much easier.) Analyzing the nature of the spammer's technique leads to the conclusion that they're putting the bulk of their spam in an image and then wrapping a page around that. While there are many parts that should be blocked, I'd suggest that the big one is to block uploading of new images so that only logged in users can do it; hardly any legit images (well, any at all?) are ever uploaded by anonymous users — unlike contributions to solving tasks — so blocking won't hurt site growth much. It will also make it easier to clean things up; only a single page will need clearing, instead of multiple. Blocking non-logged-in from all page creation might be a nice extension, if possible, but it's more intrusive (and more likely to encourage irritating changes of tactics on the part of the <s>scumbag gits</s> spammers). –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 10:50, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
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