http://robowiki.net/w/index.php?title=Thread:User_talk:Chase-san/New_User_Flood/reply_(4)&feed=atom&action=historyThread:User talk:Chase-san/New User Flood/reply (4) - Revision history2024-03-28T10:16:04ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.34.1http://robowiki.net/w/index.php?title=Thread:User_talk:Chase-san/New_User_Flood/reply_(4)&diff=33832&oldid=prevRednaxela at 19:07, 1 October 20142014-10-01T19:07:56Z<p></p>
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</table>Rednaxelahttp://robowiki.net/w/index.php?title=Thread:User_talk:Chase-san/New_User_Flood/reply_(4)&diff=33829&oldid=prevRednaxela: Reply to New User Flood2014-10-01T18:48:39Z<p>Reply to <a href="/wiki/Thread:User_talk:Chase-san/New_User_Flood" title="Thread:User talk:Chase-san/New User Flood">New User Flood</a></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>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.<br />
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.<br />
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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)<br />
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Perhaps I should augment this extension to remove users whose only attempted edits during a 1 week period were blocked in this fashion?</div>Rednaxela