User talk:ZEUS

Ask me (ZEUS) questions here.

Deletion
Just saying, but you shouldn't delete pages that are candidates for deletion but for which discussion is still ongoing. Please check The Dead Linger Official Wiki:Articles for deletion before deleting. Also, I don't know if you intended to do so, but you didn't delete Animal zombies---just its talk page. Kimberly 11:09, 7 May 2012 (MDT)
 * I understand that, but the page held little information on a subject that hadn't been confirmed. As for discussion still being in progress, no-one was replying and, to be honest, there wasn't much to actually discuss. As for Animal Zombies, yes, that was a mistake on my part. --ZEUS 16:23, 7 May 2012 (MDT)

Blocking spambots
Hi, I've been thinking, maybe we don't need to block spambots. They never seem to use the same account more than once; they always register new ones and then use those to post more spam. Seeing as the massive amount of IP-blocks so far haven't done much to curb spam, I'd guess they're either a bot network using various IP addresses or connecting through a proxy network like Tor. There's not really any harm in leaving them unblocked, if they won't use the accounts again. Sticking to deleting the posted spam pretty much halves the spam patrol workload. :) Oh, and by the way, I wrote a wiki policy concerning external links--could you check that out and make some proposals on the talk page, if you think it needs to be changed? Kimberly 07:54, 24 June 2012 (MDT)
 * That's a good point, and it'll help save a lot of time. As for the external links policy, I don't see anything that needs changing. You've done a good job. -- ZEUS 13:00, 1 July 2012 (MDT)
 * How about a CAPTCHA system for registration? I don't know how much control you have over the webserver, or if MediaWiki has a built-in CAPTCHA feature. But an implementation of a CAPTCHA system for registering and editing un-registered should stop all spam bots. Until they start reading books on their own. But when that happens, we have more important things to worry about. Fuebar 16:35, 10 September 2012 (MDT)
 * Indeed, this is what we hope to obtain in the near future. We have spoken to Sandswept about the implementation of a CAPTCHA system and they agreed that it is necessary, but as of yet they've not had time to add it to the wiki. Hopefully, after Alpha is released they will be under less pressure, and thus be able to do it. --ZEUS 06:41, 12 September 2012 (MDT)

AutoWikiBrowser
I see you deleted my user page and two articles by mistake before restoring them. Try to be careful with AutoWikiBrowser. :p (Also, it helps if you limit your list to just new pages, as that's what almost all spam is. Do so by making a list of Special Pages --> New Pages, and then do it once for each namespace you want to list.) Kimberly 19:34, 1 November 2012 (UTC)