Re: [website-dev] Managing Wiki spam - another thing we can do to limit the spam

On 10/25/2010 06:31, Clayton wrote:
>
> The more complete we make this list of blacklisted URLs and keywords,
> the harder it is for the spammers to pollute the Wiki, and the less work
> we have to do long term to manage the spam.
>
> C.

If the regex stuff is sufficiently context-aware that it knows when it's 
checking a URL (or the display-text for a URL), then it probably should 
be stricter there, and less strict elsewhere.

It should be very helpful if there is any way that the "save blocked" 
page could keep an access log, or leave a message on Recent Changes, or 
some such. A new user who runs into that is probably using H.P.'s 
Marauder Map: "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

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http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_talk:TJFrazier#Just_Testing
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