User talk:Jimbo - Revision history

Sidetone: /* Categories, templates */ new section

2015-11-02T01:00:37Z

Categories, templates: new section

Sidetone: /* Filter */ new section

2014-12-17T06:04:23Z

Filter: new section

Jimbo: /* "Toredhiddenuser" doesn't exist */

2012-04-15T22:54:54Z

"Toredhiddenuser" doesn't exist

Jimbo: /* "Toredhiddenuser" doesn't exist */ new section

2012-04-15T22:54:07Z

"Toredhiddenuser" doesn't exist: new section

Toredhiddenuser: /* Why is Toredhiddenuser banned? */ new section

2012-04-15T06:21:12Z

Why is Toredhiddenuser banned?: new section

DrModiford at 08:04, 4 September 2007

2007-09-04T08:04:22Z

Ninereasons: machine names and style consistency

2006-05-17T15:22:38Z

machine names and style consistency

Jimbo: /* spam attacks */

2006-05-12T03:54:28Z

spam attacks

Ninereasons: /* spam attacks */

2006-05-12T03:33:40Z

spam attacks

Jimbo: /* spam attacks */

2006-05-12T03:28:25Z

spam attacks

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	The filter is strict, I tried to add how to use Linux compatibility to use the latest flash library to run with nonemulated FreeBSD browsers. It wouldn't let me, and gives a notice about spam. [[User:Sidetone\|Sidetone]] 01:04, 17 December 2014 (EST)		The filter is strict, I tried to add how to use Linux compatibility to use the latest flash library to run with nonemulated FreeBSD browsers. It wouldn't let me, and gives a notice about spam. [[User:Sidetone\|Sidetone]] 01:04, 17 December 2014 (EST)
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		+	== Categories, templates ==
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		+	Hi, can you add <nowiki>[[category:Hardware]]</nowiki> to the Main page. Also, can you delete <nowiki>[[category:template]]</nowiki>, it pulls in all of the articles it's used on into the category. [[help:templates]] is a better solution. [[template:btxt]] is also a mistake, but don't delete the template it links to. Thank you. [[User:Sidetone\|Sidetone]] 20:00, 1 November 2015 (EST)

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	Not sure why you believe it is?		Not sure why you believe it is?
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		+	== Filter ==
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		+	The filter is strict, I tried to add how to use Linux compatibility to use the latest flash library to run with nonemulated FreeBSD browsers. It wouldn't let me, and gives a notice about spam. [[User:Sidetone\|Sidetone]] 01:04, 17 December 2014 (EST)

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 Can you un-ban this user? The edits are not spams, they are just small articles that need expansion.
-== "Toredhiddenuser" doesn't exist ==
+== "Toredhiddenuser" account isn't banned ==
-That account is not banned; it does not exist.
+Not sure why you believe it is?

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	Can you un-ban this user? The edits are not spams, they are just small articles that need expansion.		Can you un-ban this user? The edits are not spams, they are just small articles that need expansion.
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		+	== "Toredhiddenuser" doesn't exist ==
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		+	That account is not banned; it does not exist.

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	Thank you Jimbo! Just doing my bit to help the FreeBSD community. If there are any particular pages that could do with some work let me know, glad to help! [[User:DrModiford\|DrModiford]]		Thank you Jimbo! Just doing my bit to help the FreeBSD community. If there are any particular pages that could do with some work let me know, glad to help! [[User:DrModiford\|DrModiford]]
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		+	== Why is Toredhiddenuser banned? ==
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		+	Can you un-ban this user? The edits are not spams, they are just small articles that need expansion.

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	'''[[User_talk:Ninereasons#machine names and style consistency\|Will do]]''' —— [[User:Ninereasons\|Ninereasons]] 11:22, 17 May 2006 (EDT)		'''[[User_talk:Ninereasons#machine names and style consistency\|Will do]]''' —— [[User:Ninereasons\|Ninereasons]] 11:22, 17 May 2006 (EDT)
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		+	== Thanks Jimbo ==
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		+	Thank you Jimbo! Just doing my bit to help the FreeBSD community. If there are any particular pages that could do with some work let me know, glad to help! [[User:DrModiford\|DrModiford]]

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	::: Our wiki only serves the LAN. I'm curious though, what do you do to purge your database of this stuff? It must add a lot of bloat, over time. [[User:Ninereasons\|Ninereasons]] 23:33, 11 May 2006 (EDT)		::: Our wiki only serves the LAN. I'm curious though, what do you do to purge your database of this stuff? It must add a lot of bloat, over time. [[User:Ninereasons\|Ninereasons]] 23:33, 11 May 2006 (EDT)
	:::: Not many attacks actually succeed - I've got several filters, one of which I wrote myself, that foil the vast majority of the attacks before they ever happen. (I've also been known to preemptively decide things like "Russia's network space sucks" and prohibit vast IP blocks from using the HTTP POST method.) Of the ones that do, I generally just delete the page, if they create a new one, or roll back their edit if they edit an existing one. I seriously considered writing a SQL query to automagically get rid of all of this last miscreant's crap, but after reflection I decided that since I just got off an airplane I had more energy for 10 minutes of mindless clicking than I did for 10 minutes of careful SQL testing. =) Honestly, this wiki is pretty insignificant in terms of disk space requirement anyway - it's currently only occupying about 33M. --[[User:Jimbo\|Jimbo]] 23:54, 11 May 2006 (EDT)		:::: Not many attacks actually succeed - I've got several filters, one of which I wrote myself, that foil the vast majority of the attacks before they ever happen. (I've also been known to preemptively decide things like "Russia's network space sucks" and prohibit vast IP blocks from using the HTTP POST method.) Of the ones that do, I generally just delete the page, if they create a new one, or roll back their edit if they edit an existing one. I seriously considered writing a SQL query to automagically get rid of all of this last miscreant's crap, but after reflection I decided that since I just got off an airplane I had more energy for 10 minutes of mindless clicking than I did for 10 minutes of careful SQL testing. =) Honestly, this wiki is pretty insignificant in terms of disk space requirement anyway - it's currently only occupying about 33M. --[[User:Jimbo\|Jimbo]] 23:54, 11 May 2006 (EDT)
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		+	== machine names and style consistency ==
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		+	'''[[User_talk:Ninereasons#machine names and style consistency\|Will do]]''' —— [[User:Ninereasons\|Ninereasons]] 11:22, 17 May 2006 (EDT)

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	:: Yes, in a big way. If your wiki is on a publicly routable IP, by the way, I'd strongly suggest you make certain that it uses a version of MediaWiki after 1.4 (which will therefore use the rel=nofollow tags) - spammers look for particular versions of wikis which are useful for SEO by simple portscan as well as by search engine crawling, especially now that up-to-date MediaWikis aren't useful to them. (And be aware that requiring user registration is actually ''counter''productive - their bots are all quite capable of registering 1,000 new accounts in under a minute, but they don't generally bother to do it if you don't have reg requirements turned on.) --[[User:Jimbo\|Jimbo]] 23:28, 11 May 2006 (EDT)		:: Yes, in a big way. If your wiki is on a publicly routable IP, by the way, I'd strongly suggest you make certain that it uses a version of MediaWiki after 1.4 (which will therefore use the rel=nofollow tags) - spammers look for particular versions of wikis which are useful for SEO by simple portscan as well as by search engine crawling, especially now that up-to-date MediaWikis aren't useful to them. (And be aware that requiring user registration is actually ''counter''productive - their bots are all quite capable of registering 1,000 new accounts in under a minute, but they don't generally bother to do it if you don't have reg requirements turned on.) --[[User:Jimbo\|Jimbo]] 23:28, 11 May 2006 (EDT)
	::: Our wiki only serves the LAN. I'm curious though, what do you do to purge your database of this stuff? It must add a lot of bloat, over time. [[User:Ninereasons\|Ninereasons]] 23:33, 11 May 2006 (EDT)		::: Our wiki only serves the LAN. I'm curious though, what do you do to purge your database of this stuff? It must add a lot of bloat, over time. [[User:Ninereasons\|Ninereasons]] 23:33, 11 May 2006 (EDT)
		+	:::: Not many attacks actually succeed - I've got several filters, one of which I wrote myself, that foil the vast majority of the attacks before they ever happen. (I've also been known to preemptively decide things like "Russia's network space sucks" and prohibit vast IP blocks from using the HTTP POST method.) Of the ones that do, I generally just delete the page, if they create a new one, or roll back their edit if they edit an existing one. I seriously considered writing a SQL query to automagically get rid of all of this last miscreant's crap, but after reflection I decided that since I just got off an airplane I had more energy for 10 minutes of mindless clicking than I did for 10 minutes of careful SQL testing. =) Honestly, this wiki is pretty insignificant in terms of disk space requirement anyway - it's currently only occupying about 33M. --[[User:Jimbo\|Jimbo]] 23:54, 11 May 2006 (EDT)

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	: I eventually did look at the contents. I didn't know about the nofollow tag, though, until I saw your notice. My own wiki is not public, so I've never gotten very deep into how to stop this kind of stuff. What a nuisance. [[User:Ninereasons\|Ninereasons]] 23:22, 11 May 2006 (EDT)		: I eventually did look at the contents. I didn't know about the nofollow tag, though, until I saw your notice. My own wiki is not public, so I've never gotten very deep into how to stop this kind of stuff. What a nuisance. [[User:Ninereasons\|Ninereasons]] 23:22, 11 May 2006 (EDT)
	:: Yes, in a big way. If your wiki is on a publicly routable IP, by the way, I'd strongly suggest you make certain that it uses a version of MediaWiki after 1.4 (which will therefore use the rel=nofollow tags) - spammers look for particular versions of wikis which are useful for SEO by simple portscan as well as by search engine crawling, especially now that up-to-date MediaWikis aren't useful to them. (And be aware that requiring user registration is actually ''counter''productive - their bots are all quite capable of registering 1,000 new accounts in under a minute, but they don't generally bother to do it if you don't have reg requirements turned on.) --[[User:Jimbo\|Jimbo]] 23:28, 11 May 2006 (EDT)		:: Yes, in a big way. If your wiki is on a publicly routable IP, by the way, I'd strongly suggest you make certain that it uses a version of MediaWiki after 1.4 (which will therefore use the rel=nofollow tags) - spammers look for particular versions of wikis which are useful for SEO by simple portscan as well as by search engine crawling, especially now that up-to-date MediaWikis aren't useful to them. (And be aware that requiring user registration is actually ''counter''productive - their bots are all quite capable of registering 1,000 new accounts in under a minute, but they don't generally bother to do it if you don't have reg requirements turned on.) --[[User:Jimbo\|Jimbo]] 23:28, 11 May 2006 (EDT)
		+	::: Our wiki only serves the LAN. I'm curious though, what do you do to purge your database of this stuff? It must add a lot of bloat, over time. [[User:Ninereasons\|Ninereasons]] 23:33, 11 May 2006 (EDT)

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	Ninereasons: if you had looked at the content of the spammed pages, you'd have seen tons of links to shady (typically Russian hosted) spammer pages. It's called "black hat SEO", which you can Google for more info. These types of attempts have died down on the wiki lately because MOST of the spammers are bright enough to realize that MediaWiki has used the rel=nofollow tag (again, Google for more info) for a full year now. This spammer, sadly, was not that bright. --[[User:Jimbo\|Jimbo]] 23:13, 11 May 2006 (EDT)		Ninereasons: if you had looked at the content of the spammed pages, you'd have seen tons of links to shady (typically Russian hosted) spammer pages. It's called "black hat SEO", which you can Google for more info. These types of attempts have died down on the wiki lately because MOST of the spammers are bright enough to realize that MediaWiki has used the rel=nofollow tag (again, Google for more info) for a full year now. This spammer, sadly, was not that bright. --[[User:Jimbo\|Jimbo]] 23:13, 11 May 2006 (EDT)
	: I eventually did look at the contents. I didn't know about the nofollow tag, though, until I saw your notice. My own wiki is not public, so I've never gotten very deep into how to stop this kind of stuff. What a nuisance. [[User:Ninereasons\|Ninereasons]] 23:22, 11 May 2006 (EDT)		: I eventually did look at the contents. I didn't know about the nofollow tag, though, until I saw your notice. My own wiki is not public, so I've never gotten very deep into how to stop this kind of stuff. What a nuisance. [[User:Ninereasons\|Ninereasons]] 23:22, 11 May 2006 (EDT)
		+	:: Yes, in a big way. If your wiki is on a publicly routable IP, by the way, I'd strongly suggest you make certain that it uses a version of MediaWiki after 1.4 (which will therefore use the rel=nofollow tags) - spammers look for particular versions of wikis which are useful for SEO by simple portscan as well as by search engine crawling, especially now that up-to-date MediaWikis aren't useful to them. (And be aware that requiring user registration is actually ''counter''productive - their bots are all quite capable of registering 1,000 new accounts in under a minute, but they don't generally bother to do it if you don't have reg requirements turned on.) --[[User:Jimbo\|Jimbo]] 23:28, 11 May 2006 (EDT)