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Post Post #550 (ISO) » Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:30 am

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Enabled the Nuke extension & added you to the admin & nuke user groups. You can mass delete .

We'll need to figure out how to prevent these from occurring in the first place. They are getting in through the forum registration despite turning on reCAPTCHA a few weeks ago.
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Post Post #551 (ISO) » Sat Dec 23, 2017 8:18 am

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Hundreds of spam pages deleted. I did some searches to make sure I didn't miss any ("number" is a good search term, that's in the title of basically every spam page) and cleaned up a few stragglers; I've also checked the entire length of Recent Changes expanded to its maximum size.

This particular spam attack appears to be using humans to bypass the CAPTCHA (we've used some really unusual CAPTCHA solutions on other wikis and it's still been solved). Perhaps requiring posts on the forum before posting would work, but I fear that it would instead tend to lead the spammers to post junk posts in Queue just to get round the restriction. Some solutions that have seemed to help on other wikis: requiring edits to existing pages before new pages can be created (e.g. Wikipedia requires ten, but even one seems to work); and a regex-based title blacklist (searching for 10 digits preceded or succeeded by "number" is unlikely to have many if any false positives, and would match almost all (all?) the spam pattern we've seen. The former can be done with a configuration change (set "autoconfirmed" to 1 edit and 0 days, then remove the ability for non-autoconfirmed users to make pages). The latter can, AFAIK, only be done with the help of an extension; my preferred extension for that is AbuseFilter, as it's incredibly flexible and can be configured to implement more or less any spam-fighting rule you'd want.

(Just for some context, I'm currently an admin on some fairly small wikis, and was an admin at Wikipedia for a while, so I'm fairly experienced with this sort of spamfighting. I'll have to remember to check Recent Changes more often, though.)
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Post Post #552 (ISO) » Sat Dec 23, 2017 11:33 am

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Alright, added AbuseFilter. You should have access to it.
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Post Post #553 (ISO) » Sat Dec 23, 2017 11:44 am

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Hmm, something seems wrong with how it's installed, I get an Internal Server Error trying to do anything with it. (For example, the "check syntax" button on the filter creation screen.)
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Post Post #554 (ISO) » Sat Dec 23, 2017 12:00 pm

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Give it a shot now. Looks like the version we had wasn't compatible with our version of mediawiki.
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Post Post #555 (ISO) » Sat Dec 23, 2017 12:11 pm

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OK, I've added an Abuse Filter rule that, out of the ~400 or so edits I tested it against (via batch testing, not individually), should stop all the spam we've seen so far and yet have no influence on legitimate changes.

I've only set the rule to prevent the edits, not to apply any further consequences, so that if I've made a mistake and there are false positives, the worst that will happen is that the edit won't go through; there won't be any automatic blocks or the like applied yet.

If the rule turns out to be successful, I can expand it to block users if they appear to be spamming as their first edit.
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Post Post #556 (ISO) » Sat Dec 23, 2017 12:24 pm

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Awesome, thanks a ton for the help!
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Post Post #557 (ISO) » Thu Feb 22, 2018 5:16 pm

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Post Post #558 (ISO) » Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:48 pm

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In post 5, angelahall wrote:Your version is pretty interesting too! I will try to play it with my friends in the nearest time. I hope that this will be funny
This has been here for a little while. Clever spam account. Link is in the sig.
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Post Post #559 (ISO) » Fri May 04, 2018 4:34 am

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viewtopic.php?f=5&t=76173

Please ban this bot/user for advertising.
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Post Post #560 (ISO) » Thu Jun 07, 2018 12:32 am

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On indefinite hiatus from playing Mafia.
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Post Post #561 (ISO) » Wed Sep 05, 2018 2:52 am

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Post Post #562 (ISO) » Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:26 am

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this i guess is spam because of the advertising?
Invisibility is actually AWESOME!
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Post Post #563 (ISO) » Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:26 am

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viewtopic.php?p=10462285#p10462285
this i guess is spam because of the advertising?
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Post Post #564 (ISO) » Tue Oct 23, 2018 10:07 pm

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Post Post #565 (ISO) » Tue Dec 18, 2018 8:03 pm

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GTKAS - BNL

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Post Post #566 (ISO) » Tue Mar 19, 2019 9:38 am

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Post Post #567 (ISO) » Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:13 pm

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Oh my god
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We're fucked.

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Post Post #568 (ISO) » Sat Mar 30, 2019 3:02 pm

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Seems like they edited in those links. They didn't have them last night.

Isn't trusted user meant to filter out this kind of bot?
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Post Post #569 (ISO) » Sat Mar 30, 2019 3:35 pm

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Trusted user role doesn't exist any more.
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Post Post #570 (ISO) » Sun Mar 31, 2019 3:00 pm

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Post Post #571 (ISO) » Thu May 02, 2019 6:18 pm

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Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
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Post Post #572 (ISO) » Mon May 13, 2019 4:31 am

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Post Post #573 (ISO) » Tue May 14, 2019 8:15 pm

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GTKAS - BNL

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Post Post #574 (ISO) » Thu May 16, 2019 9:09 am

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Probably a bot. Definitely a spam account. It made a few non-bot posts but they were so stupid that I felt that they could be a bot.
Anyway, spammer
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