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Yes, thank you very much for cleaning up the spam. :) '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]''' 30 September 2012 | Yes, thank you very much for cleaning up the spam. :) '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]''' 30 September 2012 | ||
== Busy with the spammers again! == | |||
Hi Tera, looks like you were very busy with a spammer earlier ([[User:ABIDEEN1]] and [[User:ABIDEEN0]]) - great work on keeping on top of that lot, it looks like we were being bombarded for hours! May I ask a question though? On your related [[Special:Log/protect|protections]], I noticed you locked them all from editing apart from sysops, for an indefinite period . . . was that just in haste/frustration, or was there another reason? I think Mark prefers 'open editing' where possible, so maybe sysop edit protect for say 24hrs would give appropriate protection to allow blocking of offenders? | |||
I also think it would be a good idea to implement some of the helpful MediaWiki extensions to combat spammers, inappropriate usernames, inappropriate keywords (such as 'Allah', 'God', 'Viagra', 'loan', etc). I'm sure there must be something Mark can install to automatically block those kind of words/phrases - both in usernames and body text. I raised this with Elassint [[User talk:Elassint#Spammers - and new account names|here]], but the discussion lost momentum. Do you have any thoughts or experiences on this? Warmest regards, [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 06:04, 30 September 2012 (PDT) | |||