2010/8/8 <david@xxxxxxx>: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > there is a lot of spamming happening nowdays in wikis and other web forums, > so it's not too surprising to me that a page that is just 'this is who I am > and here is a link to my blog' would be considered spam. There are companies > who are out there trying to get improved google ratings by having lots of > pages with links to their page. many of them do this by buying lots of > domains and hosting them in different places, but there are a lot that are > unethical enough to put pages very similar to what you describe as having > posted on any site they can manage to get into. There are people on this list who know MediaWiki much better than i do, so you don't need technical support from me, but i'll mention anyway, that installing a Captcha extension, even a simple one such as http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit , lowers automated spamming. And if the suspected spammer is a human and not a robot, talking to him is better than blocking on sight. Can anyone please unblock my account Amire80 and IP 132.64.34.38? There are some contributions i want to make. Thank you. -- אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html