Wiki Spam

froglok23 · #1 09-11-2007, 01:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sfisque

agreed, but i have yet to see someone with admin privs to the wiki step up and say something.

lacking someone to lock down the wiki, our only other alternative is to start a new one. i was hoping my point would be seen by whomever has that level of access and they would feel instigated to say something.

== sfisque

Ahh cool cool

sorry if I was abrupt.

AFAIK, I think mattmeck has the power over the Wiki,but im unsure.

- froglok

Irreverent · #2 09-11-2007, 03:26 PM

I don't moderating wiki spam if someone is needed.

#3 09-11-2007, 06:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by froglok23

Ahh cool cool

sorry if I was abrupt.

AFAIK, I think mattmeck has the power over the Wiki,but im unsure.

- froglok

I dont, Doodman, FNW and Rogean are the only ones who have any control over the wiki.

froglok23 · #4 09-11-2007, 06:14 PM

Ahh Okay, I wasnt sure. Just seemed logical. But I was wrong

- froglok

boogerific · #5 09-11-2007, 06:45 PM

Just pointing out that we've been over this in two other threads, both within the month.

Lalolyen · #6 09-12-2007, 12:02 AM

Actually if the admin of the wiki would contact me.. I can give ya some code to stop auto-signups on the wiki and can give ya some code to stop spam submissions.

Everyone has seen the "type what you see in the image" to create an account but the anti-spam script is our own that I created a few years back. Simply put, its the same type of preventative script that VB and phpBB uses to keep people from flooding a forum, based upon time.

Theeper · #7 09-12-2007, 02:48 AM

CAPTCHA's won't stop the bots. there is plenty of CAPTCHA detecting OCR software out there that works great. The easiest thing to is to put a simple hidden form variable or add some custom field to the reg page. Then, the spammers have to manually modify their bots. They won't want to do it just for one site.

Lalolyen · #8 09-12-2007, 03:30 AM

Mine will

I haven't seen a CAPTCHA bot yet that can answer questions thats presented in an image =).

Such as in text "What color" In image "is the sky"? And...
in text "What are the first two letters in" in image "Rhumspheld"?

If bots can break that, its time for me to retire.

You would really have to have one hell of a reason system built into that bot.