Forum:Spam Blacklist/User pages

Recently, my wiki has been visited by 2 "new users" who have suspiciously "auto-generated" names Lidiya35083 and Nika26974... both who have a simple link to some russian site (it's either some sort of dating or job site) called "thenuclei.org" and "bltclan.com"... so I came here, and found that those links were listed in Spam blacklist...

So I'm a bit confused, do I need to do anything to get the blacklist working, or has this spam-bot somehow managed to slip through? --Defunc7 08:22, April 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi there! Basically, when a spambot spams multiple wikis, especially under multiple accounts as it did here, any text or links it uses may need to be blocked in order to stop it from continuing. As we have no way of telling what text or links will be spammed, we have to wait and blacklist them after the spambot starts. In this case, that is what happened; the spambot hit a bunch of wikis, we stopped it, and now it can't continue. The spam blacklist is working correctly, and the edit didn't slip through, the edit was made before the link was blacklisted. And just so you know, the spam blacklist will prevent anyone, including admins, 'crats, and even staff from saving a page with blocked text/links. Removing the blocked content will make it savable.


 * For something like this, all you need to do is delete the pages spammed. If you ever find similar behavior and notice that the links or text aren't blacklisted, then please report it. Joey (talk) 08:50, April 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Okay, cool, thanks :) --Defunc7 09:07, April 6, 2010 (UTC)