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Hi Elassint, I've noticed that a lot of the recent spammer new account creations are following similar name conventions - like 'cash', 'loan', 'credit', 'insurance' and 'payday'. Would you know if there is any way we can set the software to automatically reject new account creations with those target words? Would ether [[MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist]] or [[My spam blacklist]] work, or do you have any other suggestions/ideas? Best regards, [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 03:36, 25 September 2012 (PDT) | Hi Elassint, I've noticed that a lot of the recent spammer new account creations are following similar name conventions - like 'cash', 'loan', 'credit', 'insurance' and 'payday'. Would you know if there is any way we can set the software to automatically reject new account creations with those target words? Would ether [[MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist]] or [[My spam blacklist]] work, or do you have any other suggestions/ideas? Best regards, [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 03:36, 25 September 2012 (PDT) | ||
:I don't think either of those pages would work because they are both for blacklisting known spam websites. I'm sure there is an extension somewhere that would allow us to blacklist certain usernames and username patterns, such as the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter abuse filter] extension, but the problem with username blacklist is what if a legitimate user comes over wanting to add a wiki that happens to be about loans? '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]''' 26 September 2012 | |||