[Noisebridge-discuss] first wiki spam?

[Brian Molnar]

Maybe this is a blessing in disguise. All we need is a couple wealthy
Nigerian princes to come to us for help getting access to their funds. Then
we just sit and wait as all the sweet, sweet Nigerian moolah rolls in!

- Molnar

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Lee Sonko <lee at lee.org> wrote:

> I just saw this new page on the Noisebridge wiki:
>
> https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=/index.php&oldid=9149
>
> Looks like spam.
>
> :-(
>
> I wiped the page but I'm guessing that the spam-storm will start to get
> pretty bad pretty quick. :-(
>
> The ways to defend against wiki spam include:
> * find thousands of rabid revert-ready acolytes (the wikipedia way)
> * install any number of partially effective spam extensions
> * approve accounts by hand (stifling but very effective and very easy to
> maintain)
>
>
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