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Jul 17, 2011, 11:44 am
#1
Joined: Nov 4, 2010
Posts: 12
I infrequently visit this site and usually just use it for the wiki so I was unhappy to discover that all of the articles (or at least all the articles I found) have nothing but advertisements on them. How did this occur? Is it going to be fixed or not?
Sorry if this has already been discussed, I found topics about hackers and some containing complaints about spam but I couldn't find anything concerning fixing up the wiki.
Thank you.
Jul 17, 2011, 4:09 pm
#2
Joined: Dec 11, 2008
Posts: 1,770
It's been a problem for a long time now, ever since bots found out how to break CAPCHA.
Capristo will probably get round to fixing it after he's done with the main site.
System would indicate in graphic if person is mounted on horse or not.
Same system also show if person mounted on boar, elephant, polar bear etc.
Or if person mounted on ass.
Ivan find mounting on ass funny.
Jul 17, 2011, 5:34 pm
#3
Joined: Nov 4, 2010
Posts: 12
Ah, thank you for the informative response. It's good to hear that it is probably going to be fixed.
For now, I shall have to play IVAN unaided!
Jul 18, 2011, 1:33 am
#4
Washing machine wizard


Joined: Dec 10, 2007
Location: End of the Universe
Interests: Plotting
Posts: 1,037
Well feel free to ask any questions here, some of us have a good memory... not I though.
Jul 18, 2011, 2:45 am
#5
Joined: Dec 3, 2007
Occupation: Chaos Weaver
Location: Standing between all life and death
Posts: 2,888
The wiki has been secondary since the greatboards days. More or less everything is on the forums.
Uchuudonge wrote
creating stable chaos
making patterns where there should be none
sewing order into the chaos
you spit in the face of random numbers, of chaos
Jul 18, 2011, 12:18 pm
#6
Joined: Dec 2, 2007
Location: New Attnam
Interests: bananas
Posts: 2,299
Geez, that's awful. ReCaptcha definitely isn't cutting it anymore. I restored the Wiki for now but I imagine it's only a matter of time before they take over again. I'll try to keep an eye on it.
Jul 18, 2011, 9:52 pm
#7
Joined: Dec 2, 2007
Location: New Attnam
Interests: bananas
Posts: 2,299
Since ReCaptcha has been beaten by the spambots, I've enabled a different captcha (similar to the one when registering) where the user has to answer a simple question about the site. Hopefully that will improve things.
Jul 19, 2011, 3:23 am
#8
Joined: Sep 8, 2010
Occupation: Petty Functionary
Location: Drinking pea soup in the world map
Interests: Mangoes
Posts: 1,216
Good move Cap, that should do the trick
Batman? wrote
its been so long since i had gotten that far i didnt think it through. arrrr!!!!!!
Jul 19, 2011, 5:51 pm
#9
Joined: Nov 4, 2010
Posts: 12
Wow, that's brilliant. Thank you very much. The pages I've visited so far have worked perfectly.
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