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

::: You could also try simply turning off the creation of new accounts for a while (e.g., a couple of weeks) to encourage the spammers to go elsewhere. The number of new genuine users turned off by this is probably going to be quite small, and the problem does at least seem to be confined to user pages. —[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 13:23, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

:::: They're still using identifiable names that could be caught by RE like "[0-9]+\s*buy"; if stopped this way, they can for sure change approach, but if they are landing-pages, likely the username must follow a pattern an airplain can identify, and then they must change their OLS signals, so I believe it is not a so bad approach to fight them. I like the idea of silent failure and honeypot page, even though I've not the slightest idea on how it could be done on mediawiki. --[[User:ShinTakezou|ShinTakezou]] 13:42, 2 July 2009 (UTC)