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Spam in the wiki

Unread post by unknownZ » Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:13 am

Hello all, just here to inform that I'm slowly trying to get rid of all the spamming of external sites, etc. on the wiki, may take a few days while I go through every day, but I'm on it :)


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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by Fizzbin » Sat Nov 10, 2012 2:54 pm

Here are a few thing I learned from my involvement with the Twilight Heroes wiki.
(1) We added an additional captcha whenever someone adds a link to an outside site.
(2) We banned the offender's url when we caught a spambot.

These two steps eliminated most of our spam problems.
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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by JazzyCat » Sat Nov 10, 2012 7:24 pm

Thanks for the tip. Didn't we used to have to get special permission to be able to edit the wiki?

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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by unknownZ » Sat Dec 08, 2012 7:44 pm

There was a captcha, stopped working or somehow bots found away to get around it though i dont have anyway to access all of the wiki's database, btw back for a while, no college works :D

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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by Spiff » Fri May 24, 2013 1:42 pm

In light of tons of spammers being all kinds of spammishly spammy i have asked Gobb to turn the Captcha feature back on till well we can get stuff sorted out. so for the time being new users creating accounts will have to use the Captcha.
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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by jupider » Fri May 24, 2013 6:54 pm

Spiff wrote:...i have asked Gobb...
!!?? Have you gotten a response!? Is he still out there!??!?!?!?
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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by Spiff » Sat May 25, 2013 12:03 pm

Hahah this cracked me up. The big man well hes having some medical issues going on but have no fear hopefully things will workout how he needs them too. Anyways Jupe! Its nice to see someone still checks on this stuff! Ive been cleaning up things on the wiki and im seriously about to blow u the leaderboards. Lol if anyone else sees this...well game on my friends!
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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by jupider » Sat May 25, 2013 3:42 pm

Don't tease me! Will Paradox continue on or is it a matter of time before we get the 404???
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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by Spiff » Mon May 27, 2013 12:25 pm

I cannot speak for Gobb. But im not giving up yet. :)
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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by jupider » Tue May 28, 2013 2:49 pm

*sigh* I'm not giving up either, but that's not a very reassuring statement... Thanks, anyway. :|
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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by Spiff » Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:26 pm

LOL jupe I cannot reassure you that gobb is going to start back up all I know is that IM getting back into the swing of things....for some odd reason....hmmmmmmmmmmm :twisted:
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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by SportGuy » Mon Oct 14, 2013 4:00 am

At least the wiki is going that is something, and I've posted twice in a day here and normally I've been going months without posting...clearly I've exceeded my quota. :D

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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by Spiff » Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:31 am

Haha nice Sporty. Well ive mentioned to the Gobb gods about getting the Captcha feature fixed and implemented back onto the wiki. Until that is done, which there is no timeline, its just a never ending fight with the spammers. I have added some content tho. Maybe if people start playing again ill have some help getting rid of all the spammy spam spam. Till then well its just going to happen.
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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by Gobberwart » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:21 pm

I just got done upgrading the Wiki to a newer version which should help with the spam issue. I'll put up a separate post about it in a minute.
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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by Fizzbin » Sat Apr 12, 2014 10:28 pm

FYI, over in Twilight Heroes, the spambot problem got so bad that we required admin permission to open a wiki account.
Eliminating all of the randomly-generated stuff took a while.
It was ridiculous.
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Re: Spam in the wiki

Unread post by SportGuy » Mon Apr 14, 2014 1:21 am

It wasn't even funny? :P

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