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Re: Stars! wiki

Thu, 04 August 2005 21:28

crr65536

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One thing I've noticed from checking out Wikis is the fact that spam seems to be rampant. I know of one wiki I used to check regularly, where when looking at it's "Recently Edited Pages" list, 2/3 to 3/4 of the revisions would be marked, "reverted spam".

Often wiki maintainers try to use approaches to stop scripts and spam, but they have their problems. Some require logging in (the aforementioned wiki is now one of them) - but a spammer can just create throwaway accounts. Another approach is having people read the text in a graphic, although I think it's not good as it excludes the blind from using such a site Cool

, although in this case it's not really a big deal as probably only a sighted person can play Stars. There are some other ways (for example, have a person type in an answer to a question like "What is crr65536's username?" that a script would have to pretty smart to answer), but they still don't stop manual spamming.

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		Stars! wiki By: Staz on Thu, 04 August 2005 17:07
		Re: Stars! wiki By: Kotk on Thu, 04 August 2005 18:16
		Re: Stars! wiki By: crr65536 on Thu, 04 August 2005 21:28
		Re: Stars! wiki By: Micha on Fri, 05 August 2005 03:32
		Re: Stars! wiki By: gible on Fri, 05 August 2005 04:44
		Re: Stars! wiki By: gible on Tue, 17 January 2006 06:07
		Re: Stars! wiki By: Ron on Tue, 17 January 2006 15:24
		Re: Stars! wiki By: mlaub on Tue, 17 January 2006 16:59
		Re: Stars! wiki By: Dogthinkers on Tue, 17 January 2006 17:50
		Re: Stars! wiki By: crr65536 on Mon, 23 January 2006 01:49
		Re: Stars! wiki By: Dogthinkers on Tue, 24 January 2006 17:54
		Re: Stars! wiki By: gible on Tue, 17 January 2006 19:20
		Re: Stars! wiki By: Sgt. Bulldog on Tue, 27 September 2005 04:36
		Re: Stars! wiki By: gible on Tue, 27 September 2005 05:49
		Re: Stars! wiki By: SinicalIdealist on Tue, 27 September 2005 18:11
		Re: Stars! wiki By: crr65536 on Thu, 29 September 2005 15:58
		Re: Stars! wiki By: Sgt. Bulldog on Thu, 29 September 2005 03:15
		Re: Stars! wiki By: gible on Tue, 17 January 2006 22:11
		Re: Stars! wiki By: PapaBear on Fri, 20 January 2006 00:33
		Re: Stars! wiki By: Staz on Sun, 05 March 2006 09:06
		Re: Stars! wiki By: gible on Mon, 06 March 2006 01:19
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		Re: Stars! wiki By: Staz on Tue, 07 November 2006 17:57
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