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DanSoup  





Joined: 22 Sep 2007
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Location: Sheffield, UK

PostPosted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:31 pm    Post subject: Spamming on my Wiki Reply with quote

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.
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[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

PostPosted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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  





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PostPosted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, thanks for the solution.

Just out of curiosity, are the comments from some sort of spambot or something, or do you not know?
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[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
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Location: Minneapolis

PostPosted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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