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#1 2005-12-23 07:57:47

Romashka
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Registered: 2005-12-07
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Fighting spam

We sould really do something with spam!

Every time I go to Recent Changes I see that most changes are adding/removing spam.
I propose the following solution:
add a filter to Wiki code that would discard changes if someone adds more than 10 external links (including those in invisible divs).
That would be simple but effective solution.

What do you think?


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#2 2006-01-03 14:50:29

Komodo
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From: Oxford, UK
Registered: 2005-11-03
Posts: 674

Re: Fighting spam

I agree that something should be done; we could really do without wasting time undoing some dickhead's childish vandalism.

Any more suggestions about measures that can be taken? This is an issue worth debating.


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#3 2006-01-03 16:57:54

arooaroo
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Registered: 2005-01-13
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Re: Fighting spam

At the moment, you need to logged on to edit, so these spammers are presumably registering accounts automatically. Therefore, we need to make the registration process tougher. Lots of tricks like those funky randomly generated images containing warped sequencies of letters/numbers. Surely there are a whole load of MediaWiki mods that add anti-spam mechanisms?

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#4 2006-01-03 17:30:55

Komodo
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Registered: 2005-11-03
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Re: Fighting spam

arooaroo wrote:

Surely there are a whole load of MediaWiki mods that add anti-spam mechanisms?

Personally I'd never considered otherwise, but I guess that assumption must be incorrect, unless someone's going to great lengths to cause disruption in the wiki, which seems unlikely.


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#5 2006-01-03 18:47:07

smoon
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Re: Fighting spam

Maybe http://chongqed.org/ could be useful, they even maintain a blacklist.

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#6 2006-01-03 19:53:34

Komodo
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Registered: 2005-11-03
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Re: Fighting spam

smoon wrote:

Maybe http://chongqed.org/ could be useful, they even maintain a blacklist.

"chongqed.org is trying to fight this kind of spam. We do this by linking the spammers' keywords to pages that contain information about spam and the spammer. We hope that these pages documenting the spamming will be higher up on the search engine results pages than the pages of the spammers."

Nice find smoon; that's exactly what's needed. With the blacklist and keywords, prevention of most spamming should be easy. Now who's going to make the necessary alterations to the wiki? Admin volunteers please! wink


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#7 2006-01-18 07:01:42

jakob
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From: Berlin
Registered: 2005-10-27
Posts: 419

Re: Fighting spam

Hm or what about some spam cops?

Since it's much easier to simply delete a post then editing it, ctrl+a, del and save it.

If you choos 3 or 4 people who take a daily look at the wiki,spam could be deleted even faster...

i would do that!

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