Spam bot invasion
Hi Skilgannon,
I think you have page deletion permission. We need it, since there are hundreds of spam pages whcih appeared on wiki today.
May be there is a way to get such permissions to new crop of users. Looks like many previously active advanced users are not here anymore.
An admin can mass-cleanup the spam by using Special:Nuke on suspicious users from Special:ActiveUsers, as well as suspicious edits from Special:RecentChanges.
In the light of this, I would like to nominate User:Beaming and User:Cb for admin rights.
Skilgannon's email can be found in Contacts.
More discussion on this attack can be found here and here.
More suggestions:
- IP-ban these bozos.
- Do some of the stuff mentioned here.
- Merge all spam accounts together so we can keep track of them more easily.
- Delete/hide spam entries from Special:RecentChanges.
List of users who need to be nuked for spam:
- Abhishek.upadhyay
- Ajay123
- Akki
- Alex
- Araja
- Ashish786786
- Ashokpall
- Ashu1994
- Avisupport
- Boqr7860
- Dabbu
- Dear
- Dev123
- Dfsdf
- Dpkapadia1
- Dsgdfhg
- Emma000001
- Ergugfdguf
- Franco.nic60
- Frankgel
- Fullsupport
- Gad077
- Gattu
- Ghfdhfg
- Gibson
- Gk707027
- Gofyozilto
- Helena
- Hgjgfjfgfd
- Hjqrss
- Hpprinterhelplinenumber
- Humanbegin
- James002
- Jameswatt
- Jesonroy
- Jfnjdf
- Jiya
- Jiya12
- Jon1
- Jonemarteene
- Joy
- Kaitlyn
- Kdvn
- Ketty perry
- Kopf
- Lagoweva
- Lansj
- Lemo
- Lericuxi12345
- Lianaja854
- Llisamith56
- Lopa
- Mack233
- Mahi111
- Manish.miits
- Marksdisoza
- Martin1234
- Netgear
- Nokakeddy
- Nunu4444
- Pipni1
- Postkaro123
- Raftaarse
- Raji
- Rickymarsh786
- Riya123
- Roopesupport
- Roshunda7
- Rpaul9596
- RUPESH
- Samsam
- Sandysingh
- Sara100009
- Sdfhdhfg
- Smith123
- Somi1
- Somi2
- Speedyhome
- Spyindia
- Techline
- Tiffay40
- Toto23
- Vickyvikk
- Wheatstone
- Williamgrant
- Yifaput4
- Yurkejertu
- Ztf75682
Thanks for listing those bot! I think we should take action as soon as possible, e.g. disable account creation and delete spam accounts.
Then may be we should try to add some CAPTCHA for new users?
I made CAPTCHA suggestions here.
I believe it is possible that these spammers are not bots, but low-paid humans working in huge "spam farms". A registration CAPTCHA should therefore require at least basic knowledge of Robocode (e.g. name one sample bot).
In any case, nothing is going to happen until Skilgannon wakes up.
