Forum:'Thank you for your spam'

Someone has added a feature to my wiki Spelljammer Wiki that automatically thanks anyone who makes their first edit. For some reason it signs itself as me! I've seen this bot on other people's wikis too. It passes itself off as a real user on other wikis.

Sadly, the person who created this bot added no spam filter and it happily thanks people for all edits, including edits like spam that I'm not personally happy with. This puts me in the position where I have to 'disagree with myself' and (possibly) unthank people that are being malicious.

If it signed itself as something like 'WelcomeBot' I wouldn't mind it so much. I would be quite happy for a WelcomeBot to thank spammers and people who mangle pages and then make corrections as needed. But as it stands it is bound to be confusing if someone thinks I am thanking them for doing something and then asking them not to do it afterwards.

Is there any way I can prevent this bot from using my name (or anyone else's name)? As well as being confusing I also find it incredibly annoying to have a feature on Wikia that is designed to pass itself off as other people. It might be a trivial form of identity theft, but it is just wrong for a bot to do this sort of thing.

If the thing has to use my name to work, I would rather get the feature turned off. But I am hoping that someone can tell me how to set the thing up to be honest (i.e. reveal that it is a bot). If I can do that, I can improve the message and make it a feature that helps rather than hinders me. (I wouldn't mind it telling people to contact me for help, as long as it is clear that it is a bot posting the welcome message.) David Shepheard 10:36, October 12, 2009 (UTC)


 * Everything you need to know should be on w:c:Spelljammer:User:Wikia. 10:44, October 12, 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks Ose. It wasn't exactly obvious, and I would not have found it without your help, but I think I got it fixed in the end. David Shepheard 13:04, October 12, 2009 (UTC)