Re: [lojban] Helping with spam on lojban.org (cizyprijev , najrut, please read)

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 09:33:20PM -0400, Kevin Reid wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2012, at 13:26, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> > If you're going to delete spam on lojban.org, which I *hugely*
> > appreciate, the following things need to happen or I'll just
> > have to go do it myself in the end anyways:
> > 
> > 1.  The pages need to be *deleted*, not just emptied of content
> > 
> > 2.  The users in question need to have their email address and
> > passwords changed.
> 
> Is this a known valuable step? I've been dealing with
> MediaWiki-targeted spam over three wikis, and in my experience the
> current batch of spambots *never* reuse an account. I can see
> deleting/disabling/marking accounts for cleanup purposes, but I
> don't see that preventing logins actually helps.

No, it's not known valuable.  In this last round, each account has
created multiple pages, but I've no idea if it was across more than
one login.

-Robin

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