My wiki ( www.risdpedia.net ) has been under fierce attack by spam in the past week, and normally I would do the normal stuff to combat it, but my wiki is a little different. The people who use the site are anything but computer savvy, so I cant have them doing the captua thing, or even confirm edit. I even had to hide the login/create account at the top page because people thought that meant they had to create an account, and it was too much work. ( I know, I know).
So I was thinking about the bot. The Bot is looking for specific links, IDs, and input names to attach to. So what if we where to rename the input boxes. Would this stop them?
-Adam
On Jan 10, 2008 9:43 PM, Adam Meyer meyer7@mindspring.com wrote:
My wiki ( www.risdpedia.net ) has been under fierce attack by spam in the past week, and normally I would do the normal stuff to combat it, but my wiki is a little different. The people who use the site are anything but computer savvy, so I cant have them doing the captua thing, or even confirm edit. I even had to hide the login/create account at the top page because people thought that meant they had to create an account, and it was too much work. ( I know, I know).
So the spammers just use your homebrew /interface/ free for all page article construction CGI / mechanism. Its a shame that people cannot create an account, your work flow is pretty on target. You could always take your custom workflow and queue it similar to a mailing list and have the articles moderated.
On Jan 11, 2008 11:33 AM, Gabriel Millerd gmillerd@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 10, 2008 9:43 PM, Adam Meyer meyer7@mindspring.com wrote:
My wiki ( www.risdpedia.net ) has been under fierce attack by spam in the past week, and normally I would do the normal stuff to combat it, but my wiki is a little different. The people who use the site are anything but computer savvy, so I cant have them doing the captua thing, or even confirm edit. I even had to hide the login/create account at the top page because people thought that meant they had to create an account, and it was too much work. ( I know, I know).
So the spammers just use your homebrew /interface/ free for all page article construction CGI / mechanism. Its a shame that people cannot create an account, your work flow is pretty on target. You could always take your custom workflow and queue it similar to a mailing list and have the articles moderated.
-- Gabriel Millerd
Have you tried the SpamBlacklist extension? It's the only thing I can think of with no real impact on usability.
If that doesn't work, consider implementing the CAPTCHA very selectively: For instance, you could set it to trigger only when an unregistered user adds a link to a page, and when registering. Surely any of your legitimate users who are sophisticated enough to add links would be able to deal with the CAPTCHA?
Thanks, It took forever to make it work like that. But it was a good excuse to learn php. No... the spammers, just spam the normal way. (unless your saying that they would then just use that.). Its actually worse, because it messes with my custom easy edit system because they just insert a ton of links at the top of the article.
I was actually thinking that I could protect the template pages from non logged in users.
I guess the real problem would be with the normal articles. But then again, I have gone this far with the custom stuff, maybe I can make something to take care of it.
-Adam
On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Gabriel Millerd wrote:
On Jan 10, 2008 9:43 PM, Adam Meyer meyer7@mindspring.com wrote:
My wiki ( www.risdpedia.net ) has been under fierce attack by spam in the past week, and normally I would do the normal stuff to combat it, but my wiki is a little different. The people who use the site are anything but computer savvy, so I cant have them doing the captua thing, or even confirm edit. I even had to hide the login/create account at the top page because people thought that meant they had to create an account, and it was too much work. ( I know, I know).
So the spammers just use your homebrew /interface/ free for all page article construction CGI / mechanism. Its a shame that people cannot create an account, your work flow is pretty on target. You could always take your custom workflow and queue it similar to a mailing list and have the articles moderated.
-- Gabriel Millerd
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