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:: This is an easy way to lock out a small country ;) We should not do that until it's neccessary. For now, we just had a spammer or two every other week. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 17:34, 2 November 2010 (CET)
 
:: This is an easy way to lock out a small country ;) We should not do that until it's neccessary. For now, we just had a spammer or two every other week. --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 17:34, 2 November 2010 (CET)
 
::same opinion, spammers ip-banning is enough, if it is getting more spammy we can think about more resoltue methods but not now. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 09:59, 3 November 2010 (CET)
 
::same opinion, spammers ip-banning is enough, if it is getting more spammy we can think about more resoltue methods but not now. --[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] 09:59, 3 November 2010 (CET)
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== Cleaning spam ==
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Thanks for cleaning this up.  I also had to clean some very similar ones on Trashwiki and Sharewiki.  And then I realized I'm working on similar schemes (but less annoying to other people).  So I'm actually just going to harvest these deleted articles (which are CC-BY-SA!) here and put them on my silly website about [http://insurance6.co.uk/ insurance] (which is hopefully going to make me some money).  Would be good if the spammers will read this so they have more reasons to stop what they're doing. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 14:04, 14 February 2011 (CET)

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Categories

Hi! Your user page category has been changed to Category:Hitchhikers in Germany because from now on this (along with the old Category:Hitchhikers) will be a standard categorization for hitchhikers on hitchwiki.org (see this discussion here for the reasons of doing so). If for some reason you don't want to be categorized by country, feel free to delete country category on your page leaving only a standard Category:Hitchhikers. We hope you don't mind, though.

Happy hitching,

The hitchwiki team

World records

Created first draft, needs lots of work...

Banning spammers

IP addresses change a lot so in that case 6 months is fine, but I usually block users that spam forever. I also see that we've been getting more spammers recently. I guess hitchwiki is becoming more popular ;) guaka 12:54, 2 November 2010 (CET)

I'm an admin on Dezhi Systems support site - if a spammer logs in from IP address aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, I routinely block aab.bbb.*.* Might hit innocent users, but at one stage we had dozens of spammers a day, now it's down to a handful or so. Prino 16:51, 2 November 2010 (CET)
This is an easy way to lock out a small country ;) We should not do that until it's neccessary. For now, we just had a spammer or two every other week. --MrTweek 17:34, 2 November 2010 (CET)
same opinion, spammers ip-banning is enough, if it is getting more spammy we can think about more resoltue methods but not now. --Quarim 09:59, 3 November 2010 (CET)


Cleaning spam

Thanks for cleaning this up. I also had to clean some very similar ones on Trashwiki and Sharewiki. And then I realized I'm working on similar schemes (but less annoying to other people). So I'm actually just going to harvest these deleted articles (which are CC-BY-SA!) here and put them on my silly website about insurance (which is hopefully going to make me some money). Would be good if the spammers will read this so they have more reasons to stop what they're doing. guaka 14:04, 14 February 2011 (CET)