OniGalore talk:Current events

Spam

After the events described on the page War on spam, we are still experiencing vandalism of the OniGalore:Community Portal page. I don't know whether to call it spam, because it doesn't seem to be advertising anything, but it's bad and I'm sure we all want to stop it. Let's discuss this further on the War on spam page.

Iritscen, 28 March 2008

Spamwatch update (4/16/08): Seems that it's been a couple weeks since we had spambot activity. Not long enough to get our hopes up that it's done, but at least the bots are on a break or something. At this rate there's no need to block registration or anything.

Iritscen, 16 April 2008

Actually, not many people seem to have noticed, but anonymous edits have been disabled as of April 4, 2008. The only spam bots we can have now are of the kind that register a user name. So relax, but keep your fingers crossed, as that kind of escalation will be likely as the wiki gets more popular. Spam and its escalation is the key reason why I am not making a point of boosting our search engine rankings...

geyser 16:33, 23 May 2008 (CEST)

Hmm, someone was looking at my userpage recently... :-) -- just for the record, I am not advocating the taking of any action to increase page rankings; I just think it's interesting to observe whether there's a natural up-trend as we add more content, so to observe a trend I have to start tracking now.

And I'm glad to hear about the blocking of anon edits. --Iritscen 17:22, 23 May 2008 (CEST)