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* The admins at [[This Might Be A Wiki]] have a bot crawl the wiki constantly searching for spam and automatically blocks offenders. I'm not sure how they got it to do that, but it seems to have a low rate of false positives. &mdash;[[Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">User:Sean Fennel</span>]][[User talk:Sean Fennel|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC, Times New Roman;">@</span>]] 15:02, 27 Mar 2006 (EST)

* Spam blacklist

* First measure

* First measure (Première mesure)

Spammers regularly targetted [http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Old_Liberapedia Old Liberapedia], (now no longer a wiki) and the Wiki had out of date software.  Sysops deleted articles that were entirely spam and blocked spammers.  Ordinary users replaced spam with delete templates and aleted sysops.  Spam in good articles was  reverted.  Over about 2 months spammers decided targeting Liberapedia wasn't worthwhile.  Spam reduced to a trickle.  New [[Liberapedia]] (Currently online) has better software and should be less vulnerable. If humans guard their Wiki systematically this helps even with bad software.  [[Vandal]]s were a regular problem in Old Liberapedia and are less easily detered.

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]]  

 

Among others firms that ''“spam”'' advertising to other web sites are exploiting those other sites for free advertising.  Before buying anything from any ''“spamming”'' website you should ask yourself, “Will this business try to exploit '''me''' the way the website exploits the site where the advertisement appears.  

: Sure am! Any interesting developments??? [[User:John Stanton|John]] 12:44, 27 October 2006 (EDT)

 

:: I've come to the conclusion that even good editors occasionally accidentally make bad edits, such as page-blanking good pages. What I really want is a spam filter that can tell the difference between "good edits" vs "bad edits". Alas, that seems far more difficult than distinguishing between "editors who know a password" and "editors who don't know any password". --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 12:42, 16 March 2009 (EDT)

:: ''"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago "The Gulag Archipelago"] (1973)''. --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 23:06, 18 March 2009 (EDT)