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| Nelson Pavlosky (nelson-freeculture) wrote | #0 |
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The spam on our wiki is completely out of control. Just look at the recent changes and you'll see a few dozen spambot edits every day. I spent several hours one day banning robots and deleting the spam pages they created, and it didn't make so much as a dent in the spam... I infer from this that the bots are probably not coming from the same IP, otherwise my aggressive banning would have slowed them down.
I propose using a captcha to prevent bots from creating accounts, or simply closing account creation until we have a spam solution that works. I still like Bad Behavior but I know Asheesh hates it.