It seem that spambots sourge still carry out their spam attack despite barring anonomyous editing.
Any discussion and suggestion will be grateful so we editors don't have to revert and block spambots anymore.
I am getting tired of spammy bots attacking comixpedia.org.
So here I sum it up...
Wanted: immunity suggestion to spam attacks for comixpedia.org.
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Pre-screen
Have a human pre-screen every edit before it gets published.
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For some reason...I don't
For some reason...I don't want to do that. I don't like making users wait for their edit to be added to the wiki.
Perhaps we could just add the image verfication thingie to prove that you are not a bot.
Captcha?
A captch might be a good idea - now we just need to find out if someone's written it for mediawiki.
And pre-screening everything would be impossible to do - who would do it?
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Re: Captcha
I appreciate that manually pre-screening everything is a burden. But no other method is foolproof.
For example, I've been using captcha on my site for the guestbook, and the spammers blew right past it. I eventually had to write software that explicitly excluded posts that were from specific IP addresses and/or containing specific phrases.
Eddie
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Well, technological method
Well, technological method is never foolproof.
Prescreening is not so much of a good idea. Because you have to decide who will do it and who is trustable enough.
Eventually you will have people saying our adiminstrator is power hungry/have an agenda/etc.
I guess we may have to stick with captcha and hope it catch most of the spammers out there.
Shouldn't we be able to ban account from which spam comes?
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I am a Modern Major Generality.
It would be useless as these
It would be useless as these accounts seem to be one time use only. So spambots will occasionally attack comixpedia.org.