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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. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 21:35, 17 October 2007 (MDT)
:Yes, that option is checked by default. --[[User:IanOsgood|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.) --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 23:20, 17 October 2007 (MDT)
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