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In 2007, automated spam-bots spewed stuff all over Open Circuits.
 
Reverting any one instance only took a minute (see [[How to delete spam]]).
 
But there were so many that the nice people of Open Circuits were annoyed that they were spending all their wiki-time dealing with spammers, rather than doing something productive.
 
 
What should we do about it?
 
 
 
Lets put our discussion here.
 
Lets put our discussion here.
  
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Secret we cannot let the terrorists know
 
Secret we cannot let the terrorists know
 
 
== How Bad is it Now ==
 
 
* Dec 2007
 
A real problem, reverting takes a lot of time and seems to last about a day.
 
 
*Mar 10 2008
 
Seems much better, perhaps acceptable.  [[DavidCary]] ? must have changed something.
 
 
  
  
 
== Methods We Might Use ==
 
== Methods We Might Use ==
  
One goal of Open Circuits is to help people build amazing and wonderful things by giving them plans they can use and improve.
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Spam is a problem when it distracts us from that goal.
 
Alas, the "easy" solutions to spam also prevent us from achieving that goal -- they make it so difficult to help us improve these plans that most people aren't going to bother.
 
Fortunately, people are working on better solutions.
 
 
 
 
 
If you have something new add it
 
  
  
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*Pro: Last time they spam.
 
*Pro: Last time they spam.
*Con: Cost of ammo
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|Block Users or IP addresses that Spam
 
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*Pro: Might help if spammers do not spoof thier ip addresses or have means of changing them.
 
*Pro: Might help if spammers do not spoof thier ip addresses or have means of changing them.
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== Three cents ==
 
Get rid of captcha it puts people off contributing. Read Mediawiki on [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features Anti-spam features] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam Combating spam]. Install extensions at least: [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter AbuseFilter] and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DeleteBatch DeleteBatch] -- [[User:Robkam|Robkam]] 12:28, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 
 
== further reading ==
 
[[spam]],
 
[http://communitywiki.org/WikiSpam CommunityWiki: WikiSpam],
 
[http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiSpam Meatball: WikiSpam],
 
[http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SharedAntiSpam Meatball: shared anti-spam]
 
 
 
  
 
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