Wiki spam

[Evan Leibovitch]

Jamon Camisso wrote:

> Anyone seen the talk page for the main page on gtalug.org? I'm not 
> sure the urls that have been added bear posting, but suffice to say 
> that the content on the entire talk page should meet with a swift demise.
>
> http://gtalug.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page


At least that garbage is visible.

A site I was managing not long ago had its top index page appended-to 
with a few hundred links; the author had written the HTML so that they 
would be invisible to human readers, but visible to Googlebots and 
others looking for such links.

I see this as becoming an increasingly pervasive problem as CMSs, blogs 
and interactive sites become more common. It's times like this when the 
Drupal anti-spam module looks really good.

- Evan

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