Warzone Wiki:Spam: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 15:01, 2 February 2012

A custom, simple captcha is now in place. We'll see how adaptable the spambots are. Fizzer

Looks like bots have shut up, I guess we won that one. --Grzechooo ^{(drop a line)} 15:01, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

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-The WarLight wiki came under a bit of attack by spambots recetly.  Based on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam combating spam] page, I first tried to import their list of 170,000 banned IPs.  While this presumably worked at stopping the spambots, it also degraded the performance of the wiki to an unacceptable level, even with APC caching enabled.  Therefore, I took these IP bans out.
+A custom, simple captcha is now in place.  We'll see how adaptable the spambots are. [[User:Fizzer|Fizzer]]
+:Looks like bots have shut up, I guess we won that one. --[[User:Grzechooo|<span style="color:#ff8080;font-weight:bold;">Grzechooo</span>]] <sup>([[User talk:Grzechooo|<span style="color:#ae0000;">drop a line</span>]])</sup> 15:01, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
-Instead, the wiki now uses a simple CAPTCHA for unauthenticated edits and account creation.  It's an easily broken CAPTCHA, but we'll see how many of the spambots have code for it and increase CAPTCHA strength later if needed.
-Other suggestions are welcome.
-:Yeah, the list of 170k IPs isn't very performance-friendly, have you tried the DNS blacklist (as described on the page you mentioned)? --[[User:Grzechooo|Grzechooo]] 14:20, 16 September 2011 (UTC)