Wiki restrictions
- sinbad
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Wiki restrictions
From now on, only sysops or nominated persons can register new accounts on the wiki. I've had to take this extreme action since we're being spammed to hell, and even with content filters it's impossible to keep up with all the sh*t these people post. I've deleted no less than 344 accounts, all created today by bots.
From now on, if you want to edit the wiki, you have to ask a dev team member or MVP to create an account for you. Sorry I've had to do this, but these people suck.
Eventually a less blunt security measure may make it in, but every hour I spend on this is another hour lost to ogre development. I played briefly with trying to adapt the WordPress captcha plugin, but it didn't go smoothly and I don't have time right now. Assistance welcome from anyone who has time.
From now on, if you want to edit the wiki, you have to ask a dev team member or MVP to create an account for you. Sorry I've had to do this, but these people suck.
Eventually a less blunt security measure may make it in, but every hour I spend on this is another hour lost to ogre development. I played briefly with trying to adapt the WordPress captcha plugin, but it didn't go smoothly and I don't have time right now. Assistance welcome from anyone who has time.
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If you have been trying to keep the wiki clean - fighting hordes of spam bots - you'd probably agree with me that that's *not* funny.
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What's wrong with a simple php plain text random generated number à la:
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Enter the following number <?=$randnumber ?>:
<input type="text" />
<input type="hidden" value="<?=$randnumber ?>" />
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It's not too hard to adjust the "bot" to handle that.lhunath wrote:What's wrong with a simple php plain text random generated number à la:Code: Select all
Enter the following number <?=$randnumber ?>: <input type="text" /> <input type="hidden" value="<?=$randnumber ?>" />
The idea on the captcha type stuff is OCR on certain types of images is VERY difficult. It's a nasty AI problem as opposed to just parsing some HTML.
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You're right, that assumes they're targetting the Ogre site in particular. That said, it also doesn't take 5 minutes of work to fix a bot after you move it either (again, assuming they're targetting the Ogre wiki) .lhunath wrote:That's supposing the bots are after the Ogre Wiki; meaning people are actually targetting it, and even still, it's no 5 minutes work to move the HTML block around in the code randomly so a bot can't find it.
I think the real issue with the solution is sinbad doesn't want to go messing around with a Wiki solution that he didn't write etc. (I wouldn't really want to either). His time's spent better in other places.