Kill A Spammer - PLEASE!!!

[bobquasit]

The spammers have been relentlessly attacking the RuneQuest Wiki on my site. Non-stop. Day after day. Sometimes they deleted the legitimate entries, sometimes they just spewed their crap above or below the real entry.

Some of them wrote "if this bothers you just delete" and then instantly re-posted their shit when I deleted it. Others posted "Im Sorry" above their drug-and-sex site links for no sane reason. One threatened to delete my whole site.

So screw it. I backed everything up a while ago, and I've killed the wiki. I'll find a decent, secure alternative and use that from now on. It'll be up on the site ASAP.

Comments

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much why I didn't use wikis on my site for anything, as the spam potential and loss potential was too high.

Niced idea spoiled by idiots crashing the party, basically.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Moderated wiki?

I know, moderation can be time consuming, but the RQ wiki is worth it, imo... You've provided a valuable site for thousands of people.

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I've thought that the whole "wiki" concept was somewhat vulnerable. I recall that the Wikipedia gets messed with occasionally; I once clicked on a link to an article on "Hitler" and all that was there was something to the effect of "He's dead, dude." Open access might be a nice ideal but not really terribly practical much of the time. Oh well.....