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What you did is working nicely - do we even need to block bots that spam the talk:main page any more? | What you did is working nicely - do we even need to block bots that spam the talk:main page any more? | ||
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Revision as of 20:39, 26 August 2007
This page is for discussion of the DIY Wiki main page, and the Wiki as a whole.
It also seems to be a favoured place for spammers advertising dodgy pharmaceuticals, fakereplica Rolexes and so on <sigh>
Previous discussions on this page have been Archived
Spam avoidance
In another attempt to avoid spam the Talk:Main Page is now a redirect to this page. With luck automatic spambots will simply append their wares to the redirect page. We shall see ... --John Stumbles 23:29, 15 August 2007 (BST)
spam snipped
Hmmm, well that lasted all of about 5 minutes :-(
Now changed Talk:Main Page back to a normal page with a link saying to go to this one.
--John Stumbles 01:51, 16 August 2007 (BST)
This seems to have resulted in spam going back to the main talk page. I've added some HTML code to set the font to white so added spam should at least be invisible. It works on my browser but maybe not others - ?
--John Stumbles 09:15, 16 August 2007 (BST)
I felt the protected page actually worked ok. We only had a couple of hits to other pages in about 48 hours rather than the many we normally get per day.
- Or twice in less than an hour, depending on your POV! ;-) --John Stumbles 17:44, 16 August 2007 (BST)
--John Rumm 12:25, 16 August 2007 (BST) (posting via a proxy because I have now aquired an auto IP ban for a day due to accidentally blocking myself and then unblocking!)
I'm a bit concerned. There arent many of us and we have a lot of pages to look after. I'm happy to come along and wipe one page clean, but to chase all round the site reading 20 contributions a day and revert them all, day after day, forget it. If someone else is prepared to do that then great, but I personally think the most valuable thing here is that all spam lands on the one same page, making it easy to control.
So lets keep the talk:main page unprotected, move anything useful off it and we can just come along and wipe it as and when. I just dont see any other approach being workable. If we block contributions to talk:main then we'll lose the battle very fast imho. NT 14:18, 17 August 2007 (BST)
'Fraid it might already be too late for that: we're getting spammed all over the shop now. However all may not be lost: wikipedia has a gadget that makes you authenticate any edits that introduce external links, which is what 99.9% of the spam we've had so far consists of. If we could get that running on this wiki we'd be laughing. --John Stumbles 19:01, 17 August 2007 (BST)
That sounds good. I know nowt about it though.
It might be too late, or possibly not, it depends. we'll soon know. NT 23:10, 17 August 2007 (BST)
Blocking
What you did is working nicely - do we even need to block bots that spam the talk:main page any more? NT 11:33, 25 August 2007 (BST)