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As Wikiindex has grown spammers have started spamming this wiki and it’s becoming annoying. [[User:Proxima Centauri|Proxima Centauri]] has started replacing spam with the message below. Afterwards the page is protected so the spammer can’t do anything about this message which they don’t want potential customers to read. See [[Opportunityreview]] Wikiindex users are free to copy this for their own wiki. If you are not an administrator you can ask one of the admins on your wiki to protect the page. | As Wikiindex has grown spammers have started spamming this wiki and it’s becoming annoying. [[User:Proxima Centauri|Proxima Centauri]] has started replacing spam with the message below. Afterwards the page is protected so the spammer can’t do anything about this message which they don’t want potential customers to read. See [[Opportunityreview]] | ||
'''Wikiindex users are free to copy this for their own wiki. If you are not an administrator you can ask one of the admins on your wiki to protect the page. ''' | |||
:''I find this to be a very interesting strategy. Not sure how I feel about it yet. What is the thought around using a template or category to be able to keep track of these pages? Best, [[MarkDilley]]'' | :''I find this to be a very interesting strategy. Not sure how I feel about it yet. What is the thought around using a template or category to be able to keep track of these pages? Best, [[MarkDilley]]'' | ||
:: ''adding [[:Category:SpamFighting]] to the pages I see this tactic used on.'' | :: ''adding [[:Category:SpamFighting]] to the pages I see this tactic used on.'' | ||