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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)
Within an hour of making the above changes, we had a load more spam.<br>
It seems to follow a set pattern of creating a new account and then a User Page, so I have disabled the ability for the default user group, "User", to create pages and manually added all the genuine contributors to a new User Group "Trustworthy".<br>
If I have missed you out, or if you have any other problems, you should still be able to edit this page, so either reply here, email me, or post on the forum or Facebook page and I'll sort it out.<br>
--[[User:Graham Phillips 110|Graham Phillips 110]] ([[User talk:Graham Phillips 110|talk]]) 12:51, 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>
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)
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