<nixoswikibot>
[[Special:Log/block]] block * Fadenb * blocked [[User:MiltonTilly487]] with an expiration time of 6 months (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page): Spamming links to external sites
<nixoswikibot>
[[Special:Log/delete]] delete * Fadenb * deleted "[[User:MiltonTilly487]]": Spam: content was: "My name is Milton (40 years old) and my hobbies are Table football and Badminton.<br><br>My weblog ... [https://w...", and the only contributor was "[[Special:Contributions/MiltonTilly487|MiltonTilly487]]" ([[User talk:MiltonTilly487|talk]])
<fadenb>
2nd spam post.
<fadenb>
Seems like they solve Google captcha. If this becomes a regular issue I will add a custom question to be answered to the registration
<fadenb>
Any ideas? Should be something some nix beginners can answer easily
<makefu>
fadenb: weird enough though that that the spam bots do not directly start spamming the forum. probably because the bots assume that solving a single captcha at the beginning is enough
<makefu>
fadenb: the question for archlinux is also quite arcane (i do not really remember but i had to google it)
<ixxie>
fadenb: describe 3 properties of the Nix language (pure/purity, functional, lazy/laziness)
<ixxie>
fadenb: but maybe thats too arcane already
<fadenb>
Yeah, someone that is "just a user" might not know about any of that
<ixxie>
its not so bad if they can get the answer from just one of our articles
<ixxie>
ideally from the first paragraph of an article
<fadenb>
For example I have some devs that only do minor modifications to existing nix files to generate images. Someone on that level will never be able to answer that. I would love to keep the wiki usable for someone on that level
<ixxie>
fadenb: keep in mind, you don't sign up for a wiki unless you are planning to contribute to it, and that means the user had *some* exposure already
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<hl>
it doesn't really matter how trivial the question is to get, just that it's novel and not something a bot will be programmed to handle
<hl>
no arithmetic questions, fairly sure some bots handle those now
<hl>
i've had good luck with my "translate this word into finnish" question, but anything random and novel should work; you don't even need to have a repertoire of multiple questions it chooses one from, just one will do
<Mic92>
fadenb: we once tricked bots on a photo blog, by hiding the url form input with css and silently discard comments with the url set.
<Mic92>
fadenb: you can just patch the signup form like that by adding an additional input parameter for the actual email address and discard signups that still used the old paramater
<Mic92>
*parameter
<Mic92>
nobody will write a bot just for our wiki.