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DanSoup
Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 857 Location: Sheffield, UK
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:31 pm Post subject: Spamming on my Wiki |
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I have probably had about 15 spam messages now on my Wiki page, all the messages just say "Hi. Good Site.". I brought this up with a mod and they deleted the messages, but they are still coming. I am bringing this up, as I was wondering whether this had been affecting any other part of the site.
One strange thing I've noticed is that all the comments are between 5 and 6 hours apart. _________________
Some say he came back just to fix the "5-Note Chord" banner in his sig...
[23:01] <DanSoup> Did you know, girls masturbate as often as men
[23:01] <DanSoup> they just lie about it normaly
[23:01] <SillyScape> no-one mastrubates as much as me |
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rkcr
Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 2518 Location: Minneapolis
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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You're getting spam because you set your ACLs such that everyone can comment, even people who aren't logged in. I've changed your ACLs for you from comment "*" to comment "+" so that you'll only get replies from SH users. |
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DanSoup
Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 857 Location: Sheffield, UK
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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OK, thanks for the solution.
Just out of curiosity, are the comments from some sort of spambot or something, or do you not know? _________________
Some say he came back just to fix the "5-Note Chord" banner in his sig...
[23:01] <DanSoup> Did you know, girls masturbate as often as men
[23:01] <DanSoup> they just lie about it normaly
[23:01] <SillyScape> no-one mastrubates as much as me |
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rkcr
Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 2518 Location: Minneapolis
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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DanSoup wrote: | Just out of curiosity, are the comments from some sort of spambot or something, or do you not know? |
Honestly, I have no idea. There was a bot submitting spam in the form of HTML a few months ago, but it was foiled by the fact that comments don't render HTML (thus making the posts look very silly). This spam has a lot less of rhyme or reason to it.
I suspect there are bots that scour the web for forms to input data just to see what's out there and that this was one of them, but that's just a guess. |
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