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Problem: there is way too much spam on this wiki.
 
Problem: there is way too much spam on this wiki.
  
 
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There are [[Special:Statistics|15,724 pages]], with between an estimated spam ratio between 30% and 70%.
  
 
== Recommendations ==
 
== Recommendations ==
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* better captcha?
 
* better captcha?
 
** [http://wiki.yt/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Special%3AVersion&type=signup pet finder] seems to work fairly well
 
** [http://wiki.yt/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Special%3AVersion&type=signup pet finder] seems to work fairly well
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* run a bot to clean up existing spam

Revision as of 23:34, 7 May 2013

Problem: there is way too much spam on this wiki.

There are 15,724 pages, with between an estimated spam ratio between 30% and 70%.

Recommendations

Some recommendations / ideas for fighting spam on this wiki: