WikiWikiWeb: Difference between revisions

In early December 2014, [[WikiIndex]] user [[user:manorainjan]] -- who was banned from WikiWikiWeb in late November 2014 for demonstrating anti-community activity and failing to engage in dialogue with the Wiki community over his apparent attempts to add a "category none" to every uncategorised page -- began frequently and continuously (over 12 hours per day) spamming the WikiWikiWeb with attempts to preserve approximately 15 pages he created shortly before and after the ban.  On the WikiWikiWeb, bans were externally enforced via the use of a 'bot that automatically reverted edits made by banned users.  The result was that the WikiWikiWeb "new recent changes" page at [[http://c2.com/cgi/RecentChanges http://c2.com/cgi/RecentChanges]] frequently looked like the following:

By late December 2014, [[user:manorainjan]] was apparently using an automated script to attempt to not only preserve the aforementioned 15 pages, but also to apparently keep them at the top of RecentChanges.  On December 25th, he began creating hundreds of content-free pages with names consisting of strings of repeated characters or words.