[okfn-help] Wiki Spam (?) User Accounts

Thu Jan 19 21:15:45 UTC 2012

On 19 January 2012 14:25, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am now getting notifications from our Wiki about new user accounts in an
> attempt to monitor spam (thanks Nils).
>
> The problem is that accounts that look like spam accounts are being set up,
> but not contributing anything.
>
> As it's hard to be sure from a user name alone what is a spam account, how
> should I deal with these accounts? Presumably, everyone agrees it is
> unadvisable to block an account that has made no spam edits no matter how
> ridiculous the user name might look?

Yes, more useful is probably to monitor the RSS feed of pages created.
The thing here is the spamming is being done by hand so if we make it
hard enough (i.e. stomp on spam quickly enough) it will go away ...

Rufus