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→Spambots: more anti spam measures
I believe it's possible to create different user groups with different posting rights, so we could, for example move all the proven genuine contributors to a "trusted" group so that they don't have the inconvenience of having to solve a little puzzle every time they want to make an edit. I'll look in to that later.<br>
--[[User:Graham Phillips 110|Graham Phillips 110]] ([[User talk:Graham Phillips 110|talk]]) 10:13, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
I've moved all the known genuine contributors to a "Trustworthy" user group and removed page creation rights from all others.<br>
They're still getting through though somehow, so I have just disabled the ability to write directly to the API.<br>
I'm not too sure what this means myself, but I think it's a way to bypass the normal page creation method and, as I can't see any legitimate reason to use it, and there was an option to disable it, that's what I've done.<br>
--[[User:Graham Phillips 110|Graham Phillips 110]] ([[User talk:Graham Phillips 110|talk]]) 17:07, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Within an hour of making the above changes, we had a load more spam.<br>
