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Wiki Needs Clean Up

PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:55 am
by Darvin

Re: Wiki Needs Clean Up

PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:07 pm
by The Avatar
Look on the wiki thread. I believe there's a link to a spam deleting program.

Re: Wiki Needs Clean Up

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:13 pm
by Darvin
The wiki is getting 5-20 pages of spam posted every day. Short of actually having fans patrolling it 24/7, it's just not feasible to keep it clean.

Re: Wiki Needs Clean Up

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:47 pm
by The Avatar
Is there away to track posts like devs do for new posters?

Re: Wiki Needs Clean Up

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:06 pm
by Darvin
Doesn't matter; the spambots make a new account for each posting. I've banned a total of 16 spambot accounts today alone:

http://www.qcfdesign.com/wiki/DesktopDu ... =&month=-1

Re: Wiki Needs Clean Up

PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:20 pm
by gjaustin
It seems like the best way to protect the Wiki would be to unify the login with the forums.

Re: Wiki Needs Clean Up

PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:04 am
by The Avatar
That would work quite well, although I have no idea how that's done.

Re: Wiki Needs Clean Up

PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:20 am
by Gorgon
I think only the devs can do that. Let's just hope they do it, because deleting spam is really tiring...

Re: Wiki Needs Clean Up

PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:22 am
by The Avatar
I feel like they should apply Namtar's quote to spam bots. (Why do you even try? There are endless spam bots. I on the other hand, will spam forever...) Now that would be motivating :)

Re: Wiki Needs Clean Up

PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:40 am
by Sidestepper
Agreeing that the wiki logins needs to be unified with the forum. Deleting spam just isn't a viable solution until the security leaks are plugged.