User talk:Frank Muraca

First spam, more robust Captcha needed -- Chuckhoffmann 08:39, 18 February 2012 (EST)
I saw that you got your first taste of wikispam with the articles EskewSellers416 and User:EskewSellers416‎. The captcha stuff you're using is the same as what's in place over at the Fairfax Underground wiki, and it's been totally ineffective over there at slowing down the bad guys: the spam articles at Fairfax Underground now outnumber the real ones, in fact. Unless you want to spend a fair amount of time playing Internet Whack-a-Mole with spammers, I think you're going to need to use a different form of captcha and likely add some more robust antispam measures. The security modules on FracturedFairfax are AntiBot, ConfirmEdit, SimpleAntiSpam, SpamBlacklist and Title Blacklist, and those have led to a fairly spam-free existence for me (although this might be because I get so little traffic generally): the only one you have is ConfirmEdit.--Chuckhoffmann 08:39, 18 February 2012 (EST)

Re: First spam, more robust Captcha needed -- Frank Muraca 13:11, 18 February 2012 (EST)

 * Yeah. I had a really hard time with spam a few months ago, but have been able to suppress it. I've been messing around with the edit settings so that anonymous accounts can edit (with captcha, of course), I changed it back...just need to look more at the settings.

Re: Re: First spam, more robust Captcha needed -- Chuckhoffmann 15:00, 18 February 2012 (EST)

 * I think you should allow anonymous editing, yes, but it's probably better to keep it turned off until you figure out what anti-spam measures you want to put in place to keep the bad guys out. --Chuckhoffmann 15:00, 18 February 2012 (EST)