Blogging Roller: Wiki asshole on the attack.

Wiki asshole on the attack.

The past couple of days, I have noticed that some little twerp has been changing random words in the Roller wiki. I'm getting tired of making little corrections to the wiki, so I've turned security back on. The Roller developers have user name and passwords for the wiki. If you want one too, let me know. I might grant you one. I know, I know! it's not the wiki way. It's my way - or the highway! Mama Musings was right all along. Foo!

Dave Johnson in Roller • 🕒 05:25PM Aug 13, 2003

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[Trackback] Dave Johnson has had to password protect the Roller Wiki due to the actions of some dope who enjoys editing the items randomly. I can understand Dave's reasoning and it is really sad and ugly that some people can ... [Che Blogs, 341 chara...

Posted by working on the future of solidarity on August 14, 2003 at 02:17 AM EDT #

Can't you just ban his IP? htaccess the guy!

Posted by wikier on August 14, 2003 at 03:55 AM EDT #

Or just post the IP here, and folks will find out who it is. the abuse@ addresses at the ISP's do get checked, especially when they are also getting called out on a web site.

Posted by John Beimler on August 14, 2003 at 04:19 AM EDT #

The twerp's IP is 141.158.85.125. I'm looking into IP banning.

Posted by David Johnson on August 14, 2003 at 10:56 AM EDT #

Hmmm, where's that DDOS program gone to.... or maybe he's already been nuked by the Windoze RPC worm.

Posted by Pratik Patel on August 14, 2003 at 11:50 AM EDT #

You should have an auto sign up. No one ever posts to wikis that they have to email for an account...Big pain.

Posted by Andy on August 14, 2003 at 12:17 PM EDT #

In the JOS project, we had a wiki and we had long discussion on this very topic. The decision we came to is to make an automatic sign up process that required a valid email address to complete. People don't graffiti if they can be tracked down.

Posted by Avery Regier on August 14, 2003 at 08:48 PM EDT #

Yeah, but now with that Mailinator thing, you don't need a permanent account anymore. Those pukes can be quite clever, even with their three brain cells.

Posted by Lance on August 14, 2003 at 11:17 PM EDT #