SPAM

[mrs_potatohead]

The spam has become overwhelming. It's a waste of time, demoralizing, an unsightly mess on the Recent Changes page, and while we're lucky right now to have dedicated spam-whackers, this isn't always going to be the case.

What are our alternatives to simply knocking it out as it appears? Can this issue be bumped up to some tech people who can help? There's GOT to be some solution out there!

MPH

Comments

[astolat]

Hey aethel, I checked and there's a plugin for Akismet (the spam-blocker that basically kills nearly all spam on AO3) and MediaWiki 1.12+:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AkismetKlik

It doesn't seem to prevent account creation but will prevent edits.

[aethel]

thanks! I passed it along to Systems.