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OMG! Our wiki is RIFE with SPAM!
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 Joined: Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:28 am Posts: 580 Location: Asheron's Island, Dereth 
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 Just in the past 2 days, there were 48 occurrences for Loans, and last I checked, we don't take out loans of galaxy credits.
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 Joined: Sat May 07, 2011 11:01 am Posts: 5825 Location: Zolar
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Instead of complaining, why not delete them?
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| Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:49 am |
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 Joined: Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:44 am Posts: 3751
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man i hate having to work so early in the morning....
emptied the pages that didn't belong (an admin still needs to delete the pages themselves) and.... Dan... i'd hate to say it but we probably need some anti-spam security on the wiki... at the very least (if possible) make it so any wiki account less than a week old can't create new pages _________________ _________ Officer Namba1 of The Unknown, Lv.666+ Dark Smuggler |
| Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:44 pm |
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Joined: Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:56 pm Posts: 8877 Location: Behind you... Stop looking behind you...
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Jeezuz, whats with this new wave of spam
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| Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:12 pm |
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 Joined: Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:48 pm Posts: 2251
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Someone probably hacked the site and put it there just to be funny. Who puts up pages about something so off-topic (compared to galaxy legion) on the galaxy legion wiki?
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| Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:18 pm |
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Joined: Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:44 am Posts: 3751
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there's no hacking..... they're just creating a new account and creating one new page with that account... then creating another new account and creating one new page with that account....
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| Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:21 pm |
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Joined: Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:48 pm Posts: 2251
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That would be a tedious task banning all those accounts. And I'm pretty sure that the person would continue making new accounts and continue spamming.
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| Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:31 pm |
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 Joined: Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:16 am Posts: 244
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welcome to aggressive advertising. All it takes is a few people to think "maybe I need that" and it will happen even more.
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| Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:36 pm |
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playret0195x wrote: That would be a tedious task banning all those accounts. And I'm pretty sure that the person would continue making new accounts and continue spamming. there's almost no need to ban the existing ones,... since he's just creating a new acct for each new page he posts all we need to stop this current spam is to make it where new wiki accounts can't create a new wiki page (and ban the IP addx of the guy currently spamming) _________________ _________ Officer Namba1 of The Unknown, Lv.666+ Dark Smuggler |
| Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:39 pm |
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Joined: Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:28 am Posts: 580 Location: Asheron's Island, Dereth
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thunderbolta wrote: Instead of complaining, why not delete them? I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that I have no admin powers, last I checked. Only administrators of said wiki can delete them. Being a veteran of Wikipedia, having edited there since 2005, I suppose I could construct a "Delete" template in order to flag it for administrators, but someone has got to monitor a category page that lists all articles with said flag. playret0195x wrote: That would be a tedious task banning all those accounts. And I'm pretty sure that the person would continue making new accounts and continue spamming. That's what IP bans are for. _________________ Respectable beings criticize constructively. Daily missioner, NPC'er. Mylarai: enriches often. Gives base spare energy before ranking, as able. Mutually jocular drama favored. Get MANY daily benefits & elites as an IMMINENT DARKIE TODAY! |
| Sat Dec 03, 2011 7:30 pm |
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 Joined: Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:49 pm Posts: 2085
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We could also mark certain pages as protected if their info is likely not going to change for a while.
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| Sat Dec 03, 2011 8:02 pm |
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Joined: Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:51 pm Posts: 42
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banning IP is very old fashioned way to do stuff and very irrelevant....
everybody know IP can be fakes ones and can be changed, static IP doesn't exist anymore in most countries..... |
| Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:02 pm |
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 Joined: Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:35 pm Posts: 1457 Location: The land of butter
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how about we could make the pages have to be approved before they can be shown on the wiki?
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| Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:40 am |
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Joined: Sun Jun 20, 2010 4:50 am Posts: 569
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I'm looking into this, I have had to protect certain pages before, and I've kicked the spammers I've found but hadn't run across any spammers recently, thanks for the heads up gents.
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| Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:45 am |
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 Joined: Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:21 am Posts: 1091 Location: really wants 2 b in LA....
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just make it harder to make accounts.... us dedicated gamers wont mind xD not sure what there currently is (my accounts are getting old) but i dont think i did any email verification
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| Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:52 am |
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Joined: Sun Jun 20, 2010 4:50 am Posts: 569
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I'm speaking with Dan about it.
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| Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:30 am |
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