[Noisebridge-discuss] zillions of new "users"

Mitch Altman maltman23 at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 28 15:22:37 UTC 2014


That's a lot of users!


Is there an easy way to block all user accounts who's user pages have no content?


Is there an easy way to delete all user account's who's user pages have no content?



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> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:17:03 -0700 
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] zillions of new "users" 
> From: gregorydillon at gmail.com 
> To: maltman23 at hotmail.com 
> CC: jeffreyatw at gmail.com; adi at hexapodia.org; 
> noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net 
> 
> A long time. 
> 
> More than a 100,000 users 
> link<https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Special:Statistics> 
> 
> but only 54 active 
> 
> [https://bay172.afx.ms/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=23b2144b-cee8-11e3-9e3b-00215ad7dc0e&attindex=0&cp=-1&attdepth=0&imgsrc=cid%3aii_hujwsavg0_145a8e89b01d90e8&cid=180951c9b3b54106&hm__login=maltman23&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.111.80.8&d=d1328&mf=34&hm__ts=Mon%2c%2028%20Apr%202014%2015%3a20%3a35%20GMT&st=maltman23&hm__ha=01_eb367ae8e353bf68ff2a3ba0cff5d0540821357ac11c0228019a240e85fde01c&oneredir=1] 
>> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Mitch Altman 
> <maltman23 at hotmail.com<mailto:maltman23 at hotmail.com>> wrote: 
> Has it been the case over the years that there have been hundreds of 
> new spam user's created like happened over the past couple days? 
> 
> 
> Is there any way to easily block these users, and/or easily delete them? 
> 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Mitch. 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________ 
>> From: jeffreyatw at gmail.com<mailto:jeffreyatw at gmail.com> 
>> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:32:22 -0700 
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] zillions of new "users" 
>> To: maltman23 at hotmail.com<mailto:maltman23 at hotmail.com> 
>> CC: 
> noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net<mailto:noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>; 
> adi at hexapodia.org<mailto:adi at hexapodia.org>; 
>> c1 at caseyc.net<mailto:c1 at caseyc.net> 
>> 
>> This has been happening constantly for years. I don't think anyone's 
>> devised a way to purge them. 
>> 
>> If you want to see actual changes, you can choose "Namespace: User" and 
>> click the "Invert selection" button. 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Mitch Altman 
>> 
> <maltman23 at hotmail.com<mailto:maltman23 at hotmail.com><mailto:maltman23 at hotmail.com<mailto:maltman23 at hotmail.com>>> 
> wrote: 
>> I forgot to give this link: 
>> https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Special:RecentChanges 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ---------------------------------------- 
>>> From: 
> maltman23 at hotmail.com<mailto:maltman23 at hotmail.com><mailto:maltman23 at hotmail.com<mailto:maltman23 at hotmail.com>> 
>>> To: 
>> 
> noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net<mailto:noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net><mailto:noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net<mailto:noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>>; 
>> 
> adi at hexapodia.org<mailto:adi at hexapodia.org><mailto:adi at hexapodia.org<mailto:adi at hexapodia.org>>; 
>> 
> c1 at caseyc.net<mailto:c1 at caseyc.net><mailto:c1 at caseyc.net<mailto:c1 at caseyc.net>> 
>>> Subject: zillions of new "users" 
>>> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 04:44:41 -0700 
>>> 
>>> Some asshole script kiddy created zillions of new user accounts on 
>> the Noisebridge wiki over the past couple days. Any way to easily block 
>> them all, and delete them? 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Best, 
>>> 
>>> Mitch. 
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