User talk:NT

please see Talk:ZZ_001 --John Stumbles 15:42, 21 April 2007 (BST)

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Spam

Do you think it might be worth clearing and protecting some of the pages like the disclaimer one that they keep creating? Save having to endlessly delete it?

Also have you noticed we have quite a long user list of fairly obvious spammy user IDs?

--John Rumm 12:45, 23 February 2008 (GMT)

If we protect a page I think they'll just use another one, so I'm not sure we'd be further forward. I did spot an opportunity though: pages that dont show up in Allpages are getting created, and those we could honey trap, any more about which I wont say for obvious reasons. It wont stop people spamming it, but with such page(s) not showing up in Allpages and not getting linked to theyre effectively not visible to readers, plus the spam wont be, so it could saves us significant work.

I really wish wiki had tickboxes on recent changes for fast mass blocking & deletion. Lack of them makes the job take 10x longer.

I'll go check the user id list. NT 13:01, 23 February 2008 (GMT)

Last time we protected a few target pages it took quite a number of months for them to find new ones. It might be interesting to unprotect some of those now and see what happens.

--John Rumm 16:21, 23 February 2008 (GMT)

Quiet round here....

Gosh, a whole week and no spam yet, makes a nice change ;-) --John Rumm 01:04, 17 April 2008 (BST)

Yep, that was an exceptionally good decision! NT 10:09, 17 April 2008 (BST)

When registered users spam

It recon we may as well ban them permanently straight off since they obviously created the account for the purpose.

(I did block ban about 70 a while back where the accounts were all created following a recognisable automated naming pattern - anything not quite readable, 10 characters long. and in camel case seems suspect)

--John Rumm 15:24, 11 July 2008 (BST)

If we do that then why not ban all spammers permamently on the first offence? NT 01:36, 12 July 2008 (BST)

Not much point worrying about the IP address ones - just protect the article and ban them for a month in case they are still in a mood for mischief (probably not since most are probably bots on malware infested PCs). That way they can't do any further damage to that page.

The spam usernames however have the capacity to do far more damage, and we know will never be used for anything worthwhile, so we may as well bin them straight off. There are more hoops to jump through for the spammers to keep creating new users.

--John Rumm 05:13, 12 July 2008 (BST)

Good point, will do that then. NT 13:38, 12 July 2008 (BST)