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keep spammers out #188

Closed guaka closed 5 years ago

guaka commented 5 years ago
simison commented 5 years ago

The spam always hits User:* namespace which is interesting. I wonder if we could tighten the checks for those pages only e.g. with additional captcha?

I tried testing Akismet with the username they mention in their docs but that didn't get marked as spam, so I'm suspicious if it's actually working at all.

simison commented 5 years ago

You can see some tweaks I did in https://github.com/Hitchwiki/hitchwiki-private/commit/1cbb59f82c79e158c2c58a91a01e740094769199

One theory was that spammers get promoted automatically to autopatrolled group and then they get past some protections. You could try to verify that theory by manually testing?

I don't know if that group is useful in anyway and if we should just disable it?

guaka commented 5 years ago

cloudflare rules!

no new spammers or spam since about 5 hours

let's keep an eye on these the coming days:

guaka commented 5 years ago

lgtm

reopen if/when spam returns