The spammers know they are being disruptive, they just dont care unless it
is their site.
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:07 PM, halz <halz_antispam(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
If you've ever set up a fresh MediaWiki and tried
to leave it open to
editing, you'll know about the problem of wiki spam. There's various well
documented tricks to tackle the problem on your own wiki (although it seems
to me that some of these are becoming less effective over time.
Particularly reCaptcha)
But wiki spammers are behaving in a staggeringly inconsiderate and
anti-social way, and I've often thought we should explore stronger ways
of delivering some fight back.
Looking at spam across many wikis e.g. by googling "mediawiki ugg boots"
we could do more internet-wide spam cleanup somehow.
But recently I came across something, actually by looking at one the spam
links. Take a look at this: sickseo.co.uk/off-page-seo.html This video
shows the use of a tool called 'SENuke Xcr' and another one called
'Ultimate Demon' to perform "Off site SEO" ...that's
"spamming" to you and
me.
I've always known spammers used tools like this, but seeing this
instructional video gives me new insights into what we're up against. Also
see the discussion taking place on
forum.edwinsoft.com I find it amazing
how oblivious these people seem to be, to how annoying their activities are
for people running websites. Never do they mention the word spam, or have
an inkling that they may be doing something ethically questionable.
Do you think we should try to contact them and explain that they are
behaving badly? Maybe on these forums. Maybe we'd have to spam them back
repeatedly with such messages as they get removed by the admins. And on
youtube do you think we can get videos like this removed? We can at least
comment on them and vote them down (Youtube finds quite a lot of similar
videos) How about unleashing a bit of "ethical hacking" e.g. DDOS attacks
on people distributing this software? Really I'm amazed at how they're
getting away with this spamming out in the open these days.
Halz
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Halz
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