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Unfortunately, I cannot get this fixed at my current position. So it'll probably be a day or two. Hopefully less, but still, just giving you a heads up. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|Talk]]</sup> 09:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC) | Unfortunately, I cannot get this fixed at my current position. So it'll probably be a day or two. Hopefully less, but still, just giving you a heads up. --'''[[User:Svip|Svip]]'''<sup>[[User talk:Svip|Talk]]</sup> 09:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC) | ||
:Sounds good. We'll just keep fighting them off with pointy rock tied to sticks for now. - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] 11:00, 10 July 2009 (UTC) | |||
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Discussion
So, you may have noticed that recently, several spambots have creating accounts and then making a spam page with that very same name. After noticing they used 'buy' in all their usernames, I blocked that. But now they are just doing it with IP edits.
No, I am not intending to block IP edits, I am intending to ditch the whole username blacklist and use a new "title blacklist", which can blacklist both page titles and username titles (Wikipedia's page is here): http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Title_Blacklist_extension. It is possible to allow certain users (such as "autoconfirmed") to create these pages, but not anyone else.
Unfortunately, I cannot get this fixed at my current position. So it'll probably be a day or two. Hopefully less, but still, just giving you a heads up. --SvipTalk 09:33, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
- Sounds good. We'll just keep fighting them off with pointy rock tied to sticks for now. - Quolnok 11:00, 10 July 2009 (UTC)