David 'DJ' Hedley wrote:
Tonight there have been two incidents i've noticed where mass-spambots have been set on to the English Wikipedia. These spambots have been blanking articles probably at a rate of 100 articles a minute, and as that is the time it is normally taking an admin to notice and block the bots are causing a lot of disruption.
I don't know where these bots have come from, but they seem capable of quickly deleting content. The contributions for [[User:Whoever blocks me has no life!]] shows what I mean.
That's a vandalbot, not a spambot. They come from sad, morally vacuous people who are jealous of what we have achieved and want the whole world to be as empty as their own life. As opposed to a spambot which is written by people who want to make a bit of money, and who rationalise away the ethical problems with their chosen method.
-- Tim Starling