ToME WikiNeilStevens: I just reverted a couple of spam links added by an anonymous individual, and installed a spam filter to the wiki. It has a blacklist of disallowed phrases, and will prevent you from editing a page if you attempt to add one of the blacklisted phrases to a page.
The idea is to add a list of spammer domains to the list because these spammers are adding links to boost their site's visiblity.
If you see a spam link added to a page, please take these steps:
- Revert the page to the previous version using the Info page.
- Notify me on my homepage of the page that got spammed. I will look into the history, see the site that was linked, and add it to the blacklist.
Thank you.
PeterWiersig: Stumbled across http://chongqed.org/ as I searched on wiki spam. Has a lot of spammer domains.
Also saw an idea from the wikipedia people that changes, which included or consisted only on external urls have to be verified by http://www.captcha.net/
NeilStevens: Thanks, I'll look carefully at those if we start to have a serious problem.
NeilStevens: Heh heh heh.. just added a new anti-spam feature that should help a bit. Not sure if I should say here what it is, or take the tiny bit of extra security through obscurity.
KhymChanur: Why not say it here? Most blog-spammers are either using automated tools, or if doing it manually in for a quick fix. If they find that they can't post their link-spam, they'll just move on rather than digging around to figure out how to circumvent the filters.
NeilStevens: Many have been manual, though.
PeterWiersig: Neil, if you have a list of domains could you correlate that to the obscure accounts and their website links on the forum?
NeilStevens: I can give out the list if it is needed. Just tell me where to send it.
PeterWiersig: Xandor cleaned the user list with the help of feathin.