The spammers know they are being disruptive, they just dont care unless it is their site.
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:07 PM, halz <[email protected]> wrote: > If you've ever set up a fresh MediaWiki and tried to leave it open to > editing, you'll know about the problem of wiki spam. There's various well > documented tricks to tackle the problem on your own wiki (although it seems > to me that some of these are becoming less effective over time. > Particularly reCaptcha) > > > But wiki spammers are behaving in a staggeringly inconsiderate and > anti-social way, and I've often thought we should explore stronger ways > of delivering some fight back. > > Looking at spam across many wikis e.g. by googling "mediawiki ugg boots" > we could do more internet-wide spam cleanup somehow. > > But recently I came across something, actually by looking at one the spam > links. Take a look at this: sickseo.co.uk/off-page-seo.html This video > shows the use of a tool called 'SENuke Xcr' and another one called > 'Ultimate Demon' to perform "Off site SEO" ...that's "spamming" to you and > me. > > I've always known spammers used tools like this, but seeing this > instructional video gives me new insights into what we're up against. Also > see the discussion taking place on forum.edwinsoft.com I find it amazing > how oblivious these people seem to be, to how annoying their activities are > for people running websites. Never do they mention the word spam, or have > an inkling that they may be doing something ethically questionable. > > Do you think we should try to contact them and explain that they are > behaving badly? Maybe on these forums. Maybe we'd have to spam them back > repeatedly with such messages as they get removed by the admins. And on > youtube do you think we can get videos like this removed? We can at least > comment on them and vote them down (Youtube finds quite a lot of similar > videos) How about unleashing a bit of "ethical hacking" e.g. DDOS attacks > on people distributing this software? Really I'm amazed at how they're > getting away with this spamming out in the open these days. > > Halz > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Halz > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
