Post by Lucy on Oct 14, 2015 19:41:08 GMT
Everybody here is already aware of this issue, yet it seems like we've done less to stop them as they continue to grow bigger. I know that the captchas in use aren't working, so I don't really have any suggestions on that end. Still though, am I alone in thinking the best course of action for the time-being is to temporarily disable user registration until we can at least get rid of the ones that are already here? There haven't been any mods on in a while to take care of them, so they've just been growing at a HORRIFYING rate. I'm looking at the Recent Changes page, and literally every single edit shown on the first page is by a spambot, and just to give an idea of how fast they're going, the first page is completely filled up with edits from the past 3 hours.
I know it's not exactly attractive to have user registration disabled, but if people come here and see that the bots are 100x more active than the users, they wouldn't want to register anyways. At this point the old wiki is less messy.
I've never run a wiki before so I don't know any of the technical aspects of captchas and stuff, but just from a logical standpoint, here are further ideas that probably wouldn't work but might inspire some that do:
-Restrict ability to create/edit pages to people who have sent Dycaite an email confirming their human status. It would sort of seem then like we've become a private society, but the email literally wouldn't require qualifications other than being a human. (The accounts would still be made and cluttering up the site, but it'd be less of an issue if they weren't actually making spam pages)
-I've noticed they never include any categories on their pages, so, maybe disallow the creation of articles without at least one category attached to them? Actually, never mind. They'd probably just learn and start tagging their articles.
Uh.. That's all I got. Anybody have any other (actually good) ideas?
I know it's not exactly attractive to have user registration disabled, but if people come here and see that the bots are 100x more active than the users, they wouldn't want to register anyways. At this point the old wiki is less messy.
I've never run a wiki before so I don't know any of the technical aspects of captchas and stuff, but just from a logical standpoint, here are further ideas that probably wouldn't work but might inspire some that do:
-Restrict ability to create/edit pages to people who have sent Dycaite an email confirming their human status. It would sort of seem then like we've become a private society, but the email literally wouldn't require qualifications other than being a human. (The accounts would still be made and cluttering up the site, but it'd be less of an issue if they weren't actually making spam pages)
-I've noticed they never include any categories on their pages, so, maybe disallow the creation of articles without at least one category attached to them? Actually, never mind. They'd probably just learn and start tagging their articles.
Uh.. That's all I got. Anybody have any other (actually good) ideas?
