Indeed, thanks for handling this Ron!
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Ron Bowes <[email protected]> wrote: > We had strict rules for awhile, then I added a captcha to the main > page that asked a question about sksp. That kept out spammers for > awhile, so I opened up the rules. Apparently, at some point the > ability to bypass it became obvious. > > I'm gonna change the registration captcha as well. It's gonna be, > "What company is below us? Form: "R_______ architecture". > > Ron > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Justin Lacko <[email protected]> wrote: >> Haha, well shit, I guess we can't have those lax registration/editing rules >> we had before! >> >> Thanks for fixing things Ron! >> >> >> On 30 June 2014 23:54, Ron Bowes <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hey folks, >>> >>> Andrew pointed out to me, today, that the last 500 wiki changes were >>> spam. Somebody should have said something! In any case, I fixed it, >>> probably. >>> >>> TL;DR: >>> http://wiki.skullspace.ca/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=500 >>> (currently, the last 2000+ changes are all deletes + bans by me :) ) >>> >>> Here's what I did: >>> * Banned 'users' from posting or creating pages >>> * Allowed 'bureaucrats' to post / created >>> * Put every legitimate user I could find into 'bureaucrats' >>> * Remove almost everyone from 'sysop' (aka, admin), because I don't >>> like having random people in admin (if you want to be put back, no >>> problem! Just let me know) >>> * Generated a whitelist of all users in the 'bureaucrats' group >>> (should be everybody who counts) >>> * Deleted all users and all posts from people that weren't whitelisted >>> >>> :: WHAT YOU NEED TO DO :: >>> >>> If you use the wiki, please make sure your account is still there! >>> Also, please take a look for any important pages you might of created, >>> here's the master list: >>> >>> http://wiki.skullspace.ca/Special:AllPages >>> >>> If I deleted you by accident, let me know ASAP! I can restore stuff, >>> but only for a couple days (till backups roll over). >>> >>> Also, PLEASE REPORT SPAM in the future! It shouldn't happen again, but >>> just in case. :) >>> >>> Ron >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >>> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >>> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
