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# Monday, April 04, 2005

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WikiSpam

I am getting a ton of LinkSpam on my dasBlog Wiki. It's driving me nuts. Like 3 times a day! In about a few days I'm going to hook up the same CAPTCHA that dasBlog has to FlexWiki and be done with them. The current antispam features of FlexWiki aren't helping.

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Posted Tuesday, April 05, 2005    Permalink    Comments [4]  View blog reactions

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Tuesday, April 05, 2005 2:21:18 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Just as confirmation, even just the MT blacklisting in dasBlog has worked wonders for me. I used to get about 3 comment spams a day - but none since the blacklisting's been implemented.

The only problem left is trackback spam...
Martin
Tuesday, April 05, 2005 12:37:16 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
For the anti-spam measures in FlexWiki to be effective (on flexwiki.com, for example), the site needed a set of users who would watch for changes, identify the links that were being spammed, and then add those to the blacklist. For a few weeks, it was a decent amount of work but thanks to the vigilance of the FlexWiki community, the spammers have gone away.

There's a key message here, though: Wikis can beat spam and other vandalism *as long as there's a large-enough enthusiastic community* around the Wiki. If you're running a Wiki where there are few contributing users, then the spammers will be able to win.

A CAPTCHA probably won't stop the link spam on your Wiki: the stuff coming at FlexWiki.com was almost entirely entered by hand.
Tommy Williams
Thursday, April 07, 2005 8:50:46 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Looks like the Wiki got hit again. The Homepage has a boatload of links to some porn site. I tried to revert it back to the previous version, but it wouldn't let me.
Mark Pitman
Saturday, April 09, 2005 11:36:31 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
May be you should remove it and put up a plain html non editable site,its hard , a ratings problem leads to this mess usually the high the rating the more the spam.i tried helping out a few wikis that got all the main pages with pharma well no use...i'm going back to the roots of the web before all this spam...
Abraham Mathew
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