Re: [s-d] Wiki Spam

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "Glotmorf":
> On 2 Feb 2005 at 15:02, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> 
> > Thus spake pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> > > The amount of Wiki spam has been increasing. Can we add ACLs, to at
> > > the very least require registration before editing? (I've started to
> > > learn MoinMoin's ACL system if whoever's running it needs help.)
> > 
> > <plug type="shameless">
> > I've started doing PhpWiki development again. When I upgraded the
> > Nomic Wiki to the current version, wiki spam went from endemic to near
> > zero overnight. The key thing for the Nomic Wiki was prohibiting edits
> > that add more than n external links, with n small enough to thwart
> > spam bots and large enough not to annoy real users. PhpWiki now does
> > that by default. </plug>
> 
> Just got this far in my back-reading.  I've been getting spam 
> on the Movable Type blog I keep on nomic.net too.  Given that 
> a bot would have to be tailored to specific types of wiki/blog 
> in order to spam it, how the hell are they finding their 
> targets?
> 
> -- Glotmorf

There aren't that many different kinds of wiki; maybe someone wrote a 
script to target each kind, and is finding them via google?


-- 
J.


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