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Winter | 11 May 2012 23:32

pygame.org wiki spam

Hello,

I've been fighting the great fight against spam on the pygame.org wiki, 
but there's at least 2 accounts that seem to be doing automated changes: 
  spainadmon and Ronald Derren.  The Derren account is being 
particularly nasty these past few days.

I've gone from direct editing to reverts, but it's hard to keep up.  I 
could whip up an automated removal tool of my own but that wouldn't 
really fix the problem, and it just seems ungentlemanly to do the same 
as the attackers (even though I have better intentions).

Can prevention tools be added to the site?  Captcha's, IP blocks, 
anything?  I hate to see the site just plowed under by the BadGuys.

I feel for the webmaster(s), this isn't meant as a knock.  The attackers 
always have the advantage and I know it never ends.

Regards,

Winter

(W. Fielder on the pygame wiki recent changes)

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Gene Buckle | 12 May 2012 15:56

Re: pygame.org wiki spam

On Fri, 11 May 2012, Winter wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been fighting the great fight against spam on the pygame.org wiki, but 
> there's at least 2 accounts that seem to be doing automated changes: 
> spainadmon and Ronald Derren.  The Derren account is being particularly nasty 
> these past few days.
>
The accounts need to be deleted and an account approval system needs to be 
set up.  That's how we stopped that crap on a development wiki for 
X-Plane.

g.

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René Dudfield | 28 May 2012 10:41

Re: pygame.org wiki spam

Hi,

a number of ip address ranges have been blocked over the last week. I have some scripts now to more easily block spamming users. I think it's slowly getting rid of them.

Thanks for the report, and the help with de-spamming the wiki.

cheers,

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Winter | 29 May 2012 14:46

Re: pygame.org wiki spam

On May 28, 2012, at 4:41 AM, René Dudfield wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> a number of ip address ranges have been blocked over the last week.  I have some scripts now to more easily
block spamming users.  I think it's slowly getting rid of them.
> 
> Thanks for the report, and the help with de-spamming the wiki.
> 
> cheers,

Most excellent.  Thank you.

W.

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René Dudfield | 19 Jun 2012 09:44

Re: pygame.org wiki spam

Hi,

Adding this to the list of antispam tasks for later...

Enable recatcha for users that are less than 1 month old. Most of the spammers are currently people, so this will just slow them down a bit... but it will stop most of the really annoying bots. That way it shouldn't inconvenience people too much, since most legit wiki editors have accounts older than a month.

Fairly easy way to implement it:
https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/display

cheers,

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Winter <winter-2JbEqVPrU1AqDJ6do+/SaQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:

On May 28, 2012, at 4:41 AM, René Dudfield wrote:

> Hi,
>
> a number of ip address ranges have been blocked over the last week. I have some scripts now to more easily block spamming users. I think it's slowly getting rid of them.
>
> Thanks for the report, and the help with de-spamming the wiki.
>
> cheers,

Most excellent. Thank you.

W.