User talk:Spriditis

Link to [[Mars Garden Wins Gold]]

Thanks for providing a link to the relevant material, but I changed things so the the link could be internal to the article that already is on site. Now people can enter the [[Mars Garden Wins Gold]] title in the search bar and actually be directed to the article. I think it is also an improvement of sorts for the article to have something link to it. --Farred 05:58, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

bots ip list

IP addresses used in recent bot spamming [2011.06.30 - 2011.07.09] (updated)

ip address         hits
12.133.183.103       1
12.186.220.130       1
41.215.183.3         1
46.51.225.107        1
58.64.151.135        1
62.206.137.42        1
64.8.69.51           1
65.197.242.109       1
68.68.100.171        1
72.93.200.130        1
82.214.225.238       1
87.252.5.128         1
89.135.83.116        3
94.75.251.183        1
95.111.33.115        1
113.57.152.123       1
119.254.245.135      1
121.243.119.82       1
122.176.68.139       2
123.127.98.130       1
125.6.177.105        1
133.25.3.45          1
134.106.155.141      2
134.148.232.216      1
144.177.50.6         1
157.238.208.1        1
182.163.54.206       1
184.72.240.48        1
184.73.0.239         1
184.172.49.51        1
184.172.52.133       1
193.4.57.122         1
193.43.104.10        1
193.90.12.26         1
196.35.33.39         1
200.145.44.3         1
200.252.137.130      1
201.140.189.20       1
204.236.203.139      1
208.12.119.248       1
209.190.189.228      1
209.202.9.10         1
212.93.9.148         1
212.117.162.70       1
212.179.87.179       1
212.204.125.153      1
213.247.64.25        1
216.82.251.227       1
216.118.70.2         1
217.172.179.88       2
220.88.69.93         1

Hi Spriditis

I cannot delete article titles over here at Marspedia, but I thought I would help you out a bit. Maybe we can beat back the spammers somewhat. I saw your note to User:Strangelv. I think most of The Moon Society people may have given up on Lunarpedia. There are always other concerns and they might not see much benefit. If you got administrator powers you could delete titles of spam and that would improve things. Do you think User:Strangelv is the only person who could make you an administrator?

I would ignore the IP addresses unless one is used twice. I think the spammers have some way to spoof the system and avoid leaving a record of their real addresses. Did I help much? - Farred 05:03, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

I have to disagree about IP based attacks. I find them far less destructive and easier to deal with than account based attacks. They usually wait awhile before attacking from the same one again, but eventually they will. I originalyl banned them for 30 days, but found some hitting again, upped it again, and again, and finally settled on 180 days. I've also passed out some overdue admin cap party favors. Sorry that I don't have enough of the sort Riff and Bun Bun might bring to a party.

Big thing about IP attacks: botnets have a finite number of them, and it can be months before a zombie gets a different IP address. Blocking them for half a year means that they're out of commission for that long. After seeing the notice on my talk page I was assuming this was going to be identical to the deluge on LPedia where there's no server access and completely ineffectual protections. Good news is it isn't but the bad is that these attacks are doing more damage than just adding piles of garbage to the database -- probably need to see if I can install the Bad Behavior extension...

--Strangelv 05:18, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Well. Thanks, Strangelv. Congratulations, Spriditis, you should get used to the awesome responsibility eventually. The next thing on the agenda is to get rid of some of the spam. Perhaps I could go after old spam and Spriditis the new spam. - Farred 09:45, 22 May 2012 (UTC)