[Icehouse] Icehousegames.org spam bots

[Brian Campbell]

On MediaWiki, it's much easier to simply block an account from ever  
editing again than it is to actually delete the account. If you  
delete the account, there may be problems with the history of  
articles that account has edited.

On Sep 19, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Don Sheldon wrote:

> Ugh, these stupid spam bots are getting on my nerves.  I just had to
> undo a half dozen "edits" which were nothing more than deleting the
> last 90% of each article.
>
> I emailed Mike Sugarbaker (the "pwn3r and operator") but I don't know
> if that's going to do anything.  The place is infested with bad
> accounts that have been there for months if not years and he hasn't
> ever acted to get rid of them before.
>
> (OK, I'm done grumbling and complaining for now.  Until it happens  
> again.)
>
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