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I tend to wonder if they're using a [[wikipedia:Amazon Mechanical Turk|"mechanical turk"]] type of system to outsource bulk captcha breaking to humans. | I tend to wonder if they're using a [[wikipedia:Amazon Mechanical Turk|"mechanical turk"]] type of system to outsource bulk captcha breaking to humans. | ||
| − | Only reason they very rarely succeed at actually posting content these days, is because of a custom Mediawiki I added, which blocks any edits which add new external URL links if the user account was created within X hours of the attempt. (Note, it does not block external URLs that are not formatted as Mediawiki links, such as the participants page of course) | + | Only reason they very rarely succeed at actually posting content these days, is because of a custom Mediawiki extension I added, which blocks any edits which add new external URL links if the user account was created within X hours of the attempt. (Note, it does not block external URLs that are not formatted as Mediawiki links, such as the participants page of course) |
Perhaps I should augment this extension to remove users whose only attempted edits during a 1 week period were blocked in this fashion? | Perhaps I should augment this extension to remove users whose only attempted edits during a 1 week period were blocked in this fashion? | ||
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Hate to break it to you Chase, but we already have a captcha on user creation. In fact, we have *TWO* captchas (reCaptcha, plus a simple math question presented as an image) required for user creation, and the bots involved in these user creations seem to crack crack both. I tend to wonder if they're using a "mechanical turk" type of system to outsource bulk captcha breaking to humans.
Only reason they very rarely succeed at actually posting content these days, is because of a custom Mediawiki extension I added, which blocks any edits which add new external URL links if the user account was created within X hours of the attempt. (Note, it does not block external URLs that are not formatted as Mediawiki links, such as the participants page of course)
Perhaps I should augment this extension to remove users whose only attempted edits during a 1 week period were blocked in this fashion?
