Anti-spam extensions & settings

[Chris Watkins]

Appropedia's been getting hit by spam bots and nonsense bots lately. I've found these extensions which look promising - has anyone tried them?

• SimpleAntiSpam - adds a hidden form field to the edit page as an anti-spam/anti-bot check. If the field is not blank when the page is saved, the save will be aborted and a generic "you triggered the spam filter" page will be shown.
• Bad_Behavior - I think this might do something similar, but seems more sophisticated, and offers other security benefits.

Of course we could add a tougher CAPTCHA or require registration, but I want us to stay as open as possible.

Thoughts?

Chris


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[Curt Beckmann]

I'd certainly welcome good extensions, but I'm also fine with tougher CAPTCHA.  I don't see that as being "less open".  I think one concern about tougher CAPTCHA is additional server load.  On the other hand, SpamBots adding content which then needs to be removed also adds server load.  Perhaps the net server load of making CAPTCHA tougher is not too high a cost?

Curt

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I also would try extension "nuke" which clears a bunch of spam in one go.

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[Peter Campbell]

I am getting occasional nuisance user logons that are evading the CAPTCHA - presumably these are by humans.

They are of the form name+number - e.g. Hector25587

They do not include a valid email address.

It seems that email spam in now in decline and other types of spam are on the rise - such as Facebook and wiki spam.

Regards, Peter
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:33 AM, william.c...@gmail.com <william.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

I also would try extension "nuke" which clears a bunch of spam in one go.


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On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:26:42 +0700 Chris Watkins
<chrisw...@appropedia.org> wrote:

[Chris Watkins]

Thanks - Nuke seems like a great tool for the arsenal.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke
"written by Brion Vibber in September 2005. It is running on ALL Wikimedia sites." - that's a very good heritage. And I just had a look at it on the the cotw.cc wiki (I'm an admin there) and I like how it works.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 04:33, william.c...@gmail.com <william.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

I also would try extension "nuke" which clears a bunch of spam in one go.


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On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:26:42 +0700 Chris Watkins
<chrisw...@appropedia.org> wrote:

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