User talk:JJMC89

Recent plague of spambots
Hey - Technical 13 suggested I bring this to your attention: User talk:Technical 13. Any chance we can shut the door on this? Don't know when it started, but it's only increasing recently. &rArr; C-Hound (Contribs • Message • Email ) 16:35, February 3, 2020 (EST)
 * Hi C-Hound. I'm doing what I can. Unfortunately, wikis are open and prone to spambots. Even large projects, like the Wikipedias, are struggling with spambots, and they have some better tools than we do here (but not good enough). Recently, I've been going through the logs (usually) daily to block the underlying IPs and any extra accounts I find. (I found 77 unblocked accounts on one range today.) I suggest enabling the spamBlock gadget in your preferences for less clicking. —&thinsp; Zav 20:54, February 3, 2020 (EST)
 * In your efforts to clean up the spammers, there seems to be collateral damage to the Special:RecentChanges page that honest edits don't appear after redacting some things. Is there something we can do about that? &rArr; SysteRn (Contribs • Message • Email ) 20:56, February 17, 2020 (EST)

Possible "recent changes" user creation spam
Hi! I've noticed in the last couple of days that the number of non-editing users being created has spiked suddenly. I'm not 100% sure of this, but I think the point may be to render the "recent changes" page unreadable by making sure all the recorded edits are the creation of new users.

Could you have a look at where the users are being created from and check whether most of them have some sort of IP range in common? If so, blocking it might fix the issue. &rArr; PurpleSerpent (Contribs • Message • Email ) 14:25, March 19, 2022 (EDT)