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Lately, there have been more and more fake user accounts being created. In the time I've been here (since late April), it's gone from something that happens about once a day to something that happens every few minutes. Is there any way to prevent this? For example, maybe all of these user accounts are coming from one I.P. address, and we could block that I.P. address if that's the case. (I have no idea how to do this, so someone else has to.) [[User:Kif|Kif]] ([[User talk:Kif|talk]]) 02:16, 20 September 2012 (CEST) | Lately, there have been more and more fake user accounts being created. In the time I've been here (since late April), it's gone from something that happens about once a day to something that happens every few minutes. Is there any way to prevent this? For example, maybe all of these user accounts are coming from one I.P. address, and we could block that I.P. address if that's the case. (I have no idea how to do this, so someone else has to.) [[User:Kif|Kif]] ([[User talk:Kif|talk]]) 02:16, 20 September 2012 (CEST) | ||
:[[Table:Automatic banning of users based on format|This]] is what was done last time. We ''could'' block ^[a-zA-Z]{5,6}[0-9]{3}$, but they'll probably just move to a new combination. I think the robot detection needs re-adjusting. "Are you human?" is still in there for a start and the other ones may now be in the bot's script. Suggested questions: "Who is the first main character to appear in the pilot?" "What is the Professor's first name?" "The start/end of the pilot episode took place in which year?" - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] ([[User talk:Quolnok|talk]]) 03:28, 20 September 2012 (CEST) | :[[Table:Automatic banning of users based on format|This]] is what was done last time. We ''could'' block ^[a-zA-Z]{5,6}[0-9]{3}$, but they'll probably just move to a new combination. I think the robot detection needs re-adjusting. "Are you human?" is still in there for a start and the other ones may now be in the bot's script. Suggested questions: "Who is the first main character to appear in the pilot?" "What is the Professor's first name?" "The start/end of the pilot episode took place in which year?" - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] ([[User talk:Quolnok|talk]]) 03:28, 20 September 2012 (CEST) | ||
::Actually, that regex should be covered be the previous block, and there's already more variants... - [[User:Quolnok|Quolnok]] ([[User talk:Quolnok|talk]]) 03:31, 20 September 2012 (CEST) | |||
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Lately, there have been more and more fake user accounts being created. In the time I've been here (since late April), it's gone from something that happens about once a day to something that happens every few minutes. Is there any way to prevent this? For example, maybe all of these user accounts are coming from one I.P. address, and we could block that I.P. address if that's the case. (I have no idea how to do this, so someone else has to.) Kif (talk) 02:16, 20 September 2012 (CEST)
- This is what was done last time. We could block ^[a-zA-Z]{5,6}[0-9]{3}$, but they'll probably just move to a new combination. I think the robot detection needs re-adjusting. "Are you human?" is still in there for a start and the other ones may now be in the bot's script. Suggested questions: "Who is the first main character to appear in the pilot?" "What is the Professor's first name?" "The start/end of the pilot episode took place in which year?" - Quolnok (talk) 03:28, 20 September 2012 (CEST)