Rosetta Code:Village Pump/Fight spam: Difference between revisions

Wouldn't it be better if we turn <code>rel="nofollow"</code> on for external links? [[User:Fwend|Fwend]] ([[User talk:Fwend|talk]]) 08:30, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

: The problem is that we have someone actively targeting Rosetta Code. I believe he simply desires to make work for spamfighting out of malice, not profit. The glut of spam is helping in one way, though...I can pull the blocked IPs out of the log and block common subnets. That said, I intend to write a MediaWiki extension to tie the block action with a "add to IP blocks at Cloudflare". This will result in each IP we block here getting a mark against it at Cloudflare. CF issues captcha challenges to users they suspect are hostile. I can see the list of challenges and which have passed...so far, none have passed, so the challenge must be effective against whichever bots they challenge. Now, CF uses heatmaps to figure out which IPs are likely malicious, and which aren't. However, those heat maps are only as good as the data fed into them...whatever mechanism this spammer uses to hide his source IP (be it zombie or proxy) will get blocked by Cloudflare for CF customers, putting a pretty strong pressure against its use. (And if sites like Wikimedia and Wikia pick up the plugin, so much the better.) --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] ([[User talk:Short Circuit|talk]]) 12:40, 19 May 2013 (UTC)