Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25428589-20181007231724/@comment-35711173-20181010042045

HopelessNightOwl wrote: In terms of fighting spam, content moderators would be more useful, however our spam issues these days typically come in the form of a mass spammer every once in a while and aren't really a constant issue.

Hopeless Night Owl,

I agree. The problem is kids who come in all at once and slam us, probably over TOR.

I'll repeat two suggestions. Make people wait before making their first post to the wiki and especially before making their first edit to someone else's work. I think a couple of days for the former and a couple of weeks for the latter should do. Spammy Sammy wants instant gratification. Maybe he'll come back in a couple of days but he probably won't. Also, limit the number of new posts and edits per day, and make those limits quite restrictive for a couple of weeks.

While I'm at it, I'll make additional suggestions. The number of IP addresses referenced by TOR isn't infinite. Most of the time, people actually hit a few dozen servers. Why not have us register through Tor and then ban the IP of every one of these accounts? We would name them Tor001, Tor002, Tor003, etc. I grant it's more than one login per person but it's in a good cause and the purpose is to get rid of people using multiple accounts. If desired, we could even identify ourselves in the account name. Tor001DrBob, Tor002BloodySpaghetti, Tor003L0cked334, etc.

Would it be possible to distribute reasonably widely the authority to implement a 24 hour ban on an account and ONLY that authority? Add all the rollback people to this list and if that isn't enough then some other long term people could be considered. Someone starts doodling ugly porn on everyone's story - BAM - they are gone.

Dr. Bob