Thanks Emufarmers for the advice... I have still yet to implement, but just
noticed something and wonder if others are seeing it too.
On my wiki the bot is not just inserting random gibberish words, it is also
changing symbols to strange characters.
For example as seen
:
" (a quote symbol)
becomes
â (the letter a with an accent)
any other theories or solutions?
On Nov 3, 2007 8:31 PM, Emufarmers Sangly <emufarmers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 3, 2007 9:31 PM, Seth Marbin
<smarbin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have been having the same problem (random
gibberish edits) on my
teampedia.net for the past few weeks.
I am already using ConfirmEdit, but only have the default setting
enabled
(thus no captcha for all edits).
I am considering two options:
- Disabling anonymous edits (i.e. requiring users to register before
editing/adding)
- Changing it so the captchas trigger on any edit.
Any advice about which way to go?
The least obtrusive option would be a combination of the two: Enable the
CAPTCHA for unregistered users' edits, and for registration attempts, but
let logged-in users edit freely.
--
Arr, ye emus,
http://emufarmers.com
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