User talk:MikeMol
Spam
Spam attack starting; time to lockdown the wiki? --IanOsgood 23:51, 9 October 2007 (MDT)
- I've disabled anonymous editing again. I'd enable captchas for anonymous edits, but I really need to get some sleep. Anyway, I've added 'block' to the Bureaucrats permissions, so you can IP block the IPs committing the defacements. Keep the blocks short for now; two weeks at most. --Short Circuit 00:03, 10 October 2007 (MDT)
- Is it really spam ? Or just someone testing out new bots ? Do you have access to the headers those clients use ? --CrashandDie 09:00, 10 October 2007 (MDT)
- They look like random strings intended for indexing by search engines. If I were doing that, it would be to test the effectiveness of my bot by letting it run for a couple weeks, then searching for the search queries. There have been contests where the sole purpose is to put one's "signature" on the most websites; Wikis just happen to be an easy target for defacement.
- The thing is, they can test their bots this way all they want; Only if they try to place a URL will they hit a CAPTCHA--at which point, their bot will fail. I'm not going to mess with the CAPTCHA settings until I see URLs start showing up in spam/defacements. Tonight, I'll grant anonymous edit permissions again, and we'll see where we are with just the bans. --Short Circuit 10:11, 10 October 2007 (MDT)
- Is it really spam ? Or just someone testing out new bots ? Do you have access to the headers those clients use ? --CrashandDie 09:00, 10 October 2007 (MDT)