Discuss Recent increase in spamming on ARRSEpedia in ARRSEpedia on The Army Rumour Service; Given the recent increase in weirdly-named spam pages in t'pedia, how about temporarily preventing newly-registered contributors from creating new pages? Or, if that can't be done, how about restricting all edits for new contributors?
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Recent increase in spamming on ARRSEpedia
Given the recent increase in weirdly-named spam pages in t'pedia, how about temporarily preventing newly-registered contributors from creating new pages? Or, if that can't be done, how about restricting all edits for new contributors?
It would only require a probation period of a week or two, and this would probably only need to be in force for six months or so. After that, whoever is doing this will have given up and moved on.The above post is not intended as official communication from HMRC and in no way reflects the opinions of that organisation. In fact, it probably doesn't reflect the opinions of the poster and certainly won't have been properly thought through.
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Is anything happening to tackle the spam problem?
- 16-04-2011, 11:40 #3
Sorry guys and yes this is something we've got in hand - Patchpedia has the same problem. It has taken a back seat to getting our server problems sorted but we will get round to it! In the meantime thanks to everyone who keeps zapping the stuff!
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- 01-07-2011, 23:57 #4
Long overdue but I've installed a few anti-spam measures on the ARRSEpedia which I hope will prevent further spam proliferation .....
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- 02-07-2011, 08:44 #5
Hmm, not quite as successful as I'd hoped so I've gone down the reCaptcha route. Yes,, I know that its been cracked but I'm hoping it will still help.
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- 09-07-2011, 07:11 #6
I've boycotted my local chinky in protest. If nothing else it racks up my edit count - and as we all know, you are what you edit. 5k here ich comen! They will speak of the Great 2011 Spam Tsunami in awe in years to come... probably.
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- 19-03-2012, 08:20 #7
It's all gone... quiet. Crumbs, that's torn it skipper!
Fred Astaire ate my hamper!
If they should once obtain a connivance, they will press for a toleration, from thence to an equality, from an equality to a superiority, from a superiority to an extirpation of all contrary religions. John Pym 1584-1643.
I reserve the right to say what the fcuk I like. The serried ranks of headstones in Flanders, Normandy and elsewhere give me that right.
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