jhubert writes: As of late, Wikidot.Com has been under ever-more intensive attack by spammers, who add links to innocent wikis leading to sites attempting to sell you PhD theses, used cars, pool supplies, and even more dubious offers. This has led many site admins to desperate measures such as locking parts of their wiki or even restricting them to members only, harming the spirit of openness that is the very foundation of the wiki community.
He's started the Spambot Wall of Death where we can post the names of spammers and spam sites. I'm pestering the devs to give superadmins a tool that kills a user profile and all their sites in one go. Also, another of my ideas is to add a kind of link moderation tool so that only site members can create external links.
What do you think about spam, link moderation, and jhubert's Spamdot Wall of Death?
"No Site exists for this address"
:-) Fixed it, thanks.
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Ah, that was my fault.
I accidentally entered "spamdotdeathwall.wikidot.com", but it should have been "spambotdeathwall". I corrected it later on.
The Spambot Death Wall
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Urbis - A World of Cities - an urban fantasy setting of industrial magic
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Please, Please make this dynamic, and not static.
Totally agreed.
And Pieter will offer a free one-year pro account to the guy that will transform this spamfigther from a simple table-based system to the fresh-new form based one.
For each and every word in the introduction entry. I hate spammers. They should die. The idea of reporting them is excellent. People report them to one place, and admins with right to shoot-to-kill go there and do their job. Nice. I second this idea. From the very beginning to the very end.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
Restrictions on posting links is the way to go, since that is one of the main (and the most pernicious) problems. Could it just be one more option in the Site Manager's Permissions page, along with "View," "Edit," etc? Another similar option would be to have page edits or comments held for moderation if they contain links by non-members. Wordpress allows for the latter option in blog comments and it works very well.
That is a great idea and would stop the links spammers in one go.
Only the marodeurs of vandalism are nto stopped - but this is another kind of fight and not very often…
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.
Sie können fragen und mitwirken in der deutschsprachigen » User-Gemeinschaft für WikidotNutzer oder
im deutschen » Wikidot Handbuch ?
The thing is that many wikidot users that are not Community site members come daily and ask for help. Sometimes they post links that are not wikidot. And many times they post links to their wikidot sites. Maybe this would be a problem, broken links of wikidot users that just need help… Maybe to make it in such a way that breaks only non wikidot external links…
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
@Brunhilda, I've posted a design sketch for the SpamBlocker. It would allow all links that end in .wikidot.com and make all others visible but not active. Any site member can then edit/save the post to activate the links. That works, I think?
A more sophisticated version can actually check each link against known custom domains as well, and Michal will probably end up making that.
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I know, I went there and dropped a couple of thoughts…
It is ok even if the link just stays inactive. Copying and pasting it in a new tab is just a few sec longer process than just clicking on the link (if I understood well, the link will not be broken, but just inactive?) Broken links are a little bit more pain in the ass, since you have to remove the spaces…
You mean, any site member can edit anyones post? Or just posts of non-members? I
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
Sorry, any moderator. I'm not proposing any change to permissions…
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I recently joined (and unjoined) the Stallmanism. I had to type twice the magical password "I am Free"1 just because I did not cut and paste it, three lines above the password box. I was not sure of what I was entering.
I remembered this "Stop Password Masking" article from Jakob Nielsen:
… and found this article "Better Password Inputs, iPhone Style" by Chris Coyier who provides a solution (not tested by me) to the problem.
Just wondering whether Wikidot could implement this…
The main reason for password masking is not so much people looking over your shoulder… but when you connect your PC to a projector to do a demo and the whole room sees that your password is "I love Mum".
I fixed the Stallmanism site to use open membership. Typing a password to join a site is so 2009!
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Jakob Nielsen in 3rd §:
He also suggested the use of a check box to change the input type from password to none.
I'm ranting about something different. I'd like to use display-math in level-2 or higher bullets, but cannot. For example, the code
produces the wrong output (from my perspective):
- A
- B
(1)* C
And that's my rant.
Although this rant is a little bit late, I will say it: I hate when I edit a section, and after saving it, I am lead to the beginning of the page, instead of the beginning of the section I have edited. In short texts this is not noticed, but in longer texts it is very annoying, having to scroll all over again to the part of the text you want to see after each saving of the changes…
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney
the worst spam comes from the fact that anonymous commenters can enter in a website address that transforms their name into a link. most people don't have websites, so they put in complete junk or fake sites. and also it's used by spammers.