Spam attack on Ruby-Garden

[Carsten Eckelmann]

Hi everybody,

i just had a look at some pages in the Rubygarden wiki and saw that
someone has inserted large amounts of spam links into the pages. Please
all have a search for 'disney' and see for yourself. I will start delete
some of the stuff, but don't have time to do it all.

BTW: this shows the beauty of wikis, that even though they are open to
the public and event though bad people can corrupt them easily, it is
always save to undo these things.

Cheers,
Carsten.

 

[paul vudmaska]

Hi everybody,

i just had a look at some pages in the Rubygarden wiki and saw that
someone has inserted large amounts of spam links into the pages. Please
all have a search for 'disney' and see for yourself. I will start delete
some of the stuff, but don't have time to do it all.

BTW: this shows the beauty of wikis, that even though they are open to
the public and event though bad people can corrupt them easily, it is
always save to undo these things.

Cheers,
Carsten.

Perhaps some additonal wiki smarts would stop some of that. Assuming
the ip of the spammer is taken, in addition to the rollback of the
changes i suggest an option that says, 'i think this is spam' be
available. When x many people complain of a certain ip, that ip should
be bannded from further changes.

Of course that assumes the sob does not change ip periodically.

aul

 

[Nicholas Van Weerdenburg]

The wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.com) is an interesting example of
this. They seem to have a constant battle against spammers/vandals and
have a mechamism/process in place.