[Wiki-research-l] Spambots and HTTPS

2015-09-01 Thread Pine W
I noticed after HTTPS was enabled by default that there were many fewer spambots on one of the wikis that I monitor for recent changes. Did anyone else noticed a decline in spambots after HTTPS was enabled? This may be relevant to discussions about the highly active editor stats. While I doubt

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Spambots and HTTPS

2015-09-01 Thread WereSpielChequers
As you say I doubt many spammers would get into the 100 edit a month league before being blocked. Of course a lot of rollbackers will be in the stats, and if there had been a drop in spam then some of the spam fighters might drop below 100 edits a month. But since the big announcement today about