Closed guaka closed 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.
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?
cloudflare rules!
no new spammers or spam since about 5 hours
let's keep an eye on these the coming days:
lgtm
reopen if/when spam returns