Hoarding is exactly what the government is doing right now by filling the SPR, and frankly it's the best thing that could happen. It drives prices up. High prices encourage demand destruction. They also finance new well development. The hoarded oil gives us a buffer to fall back on once shortages become more prevalent. High prices are what we need in order to adapt to what's coming, and the sooner they happen, the better.
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject: Reminder: wiki spam problem
Just a reminder about peak wiki, adding content is more fun then removing spam.
A few options to consider...
Quote:
ConfirmEdit
Install the ConfirmEdit extension. ConfirmEdit uses captchas (simple
tests to "prove" an editor is human before registering an account or
allowing certain types of edits) to prevent many spam robots from
inserting spam into a wiki.
You can use "fancy" image captchas with squiggly letters, the kind
everyone is used to seeing these days, or you can opt to use
simple math problems. The image-based captchas present problems
for blind people, but it's probably easier to write a spam robot to
detect and do math problems, so there's a tradeoff. I use the math
problems on UMassWiki for maximum accessibility. They're very
simple addition and subtraction only.
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:01 am Post subject: Re: Reminder: wiki spam problem
I'm finding several pages where it doesn't let you edit. It may be that the page is too big or something, that's the error I get. I tried reverting to a clean page, but it won't allow that either. Looking at the history it's like I wasn't even there.
I'm not sure if it's an error in the code or something wrong with my log-in. Or something one of the spammers did. _________________ What, so I'm in no end game
Move my piece right off the board
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:49 am Post subject: Re: Reminder: wiki spam problem
RedStateGreen wrote:
I'm finding several pages where it doesn't let you edit.
It may be that the page is too big or something...
The problem is probably the page is too big. When I run into that
problem I close all other tabs, all other open browsers and open just that
page. That works for me, I'm using Firefox.
But it's too bad it's so easy for spammers to get in, I think someday
that should be fixed...
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