These bots or paid spammers have been promoting a Vietnamese holiday website and a bunch of copy-paste news articles
All have been blocked and their articles deleted.
These bots or paid spammers have been promoting a Vietnamese holiday website and a bunch of copy-paste news articles
All have been blocked and their articles deleted.
Not so much anymore, unfortunately. There’s now software that’s able to solve captchas, sometimes even more efficiently than humans. It’s possible the bots wouldn’t be using it, but captchas are so common that there’s a good chance they are, that or a captcha-solving service.
If so many websites use them, then it’s not completely useless. Besides it’s better to have them, rather than not having anything. Right now anyone can write a script to continuously attack the wiki. Even if a CAPTCHA can be bypassed, it makes attacks more complex and will filter out a large percentage of bots, which is better than nothing.