Maybe its just a recent increase in spammers but I'd never gotten a spam message until I joined this site. It has made me wonder if perhaps spammers are using the community wikidot members list to find users to spam. Has anyone ever received spam before joining this site, or on an alt that isn't a part of this site?
This is a normal way for spammer to see the members list of a public wiki to search for new targets… we can nothing do against this ( we could make the system-category non-viewable but this helps only against non members)
If you recieve spam messages on your PM account than you can always write the users on http://spambotdeathwall.wikidot.com/
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I have, I was checking that this was how spammers operate so I would know if joining the community site with multiple alts would help me catch them faster. Of course now it's just a matter of asking a mod if that would be allowed.
Of course now it's just a matter of asking a mod if that would be allowed.
? ? ?
What would you like to ask?
A "Ban" can also help to stop a spammer of reading a wiki/site….
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If it would be acceptable for me to join the community site with multiple alts to cast a wider net and catch more spammers. (Since only accounts on the community site or other popular wikis get spam PMs.)
I don't think having alts is a good idea…
~TheFlatulence
On the other side :
after 14 years as community admin I read the first time of this abusive messaging over the list of members of a public wiki site.
Is this a real attack in a massive kind of doing?
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.
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I've also been a community member/community admin for 13 or 14 years and only get occasional spam via DM.