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• Moderation (Score:2)

  by jonasbn (1153)

  What about moderation with approval?
• use a redirect script (Score:4, Interesting)

  by kellan (905) on 2004.02.07 12:39 (#28168) Homepage Journal

  instead of linking directly to external URLs have your formatter point them to a redirect script thus negating the Google value of the links. if the spammers are adding links by hand they'll figure it out quickly.

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  • Re:use a redirect script (Score:3, Informative)

    by Matts (1087)

    Ah, thanks for this idea. This is the option I've chosen (as it's the simplest to implement). I wrote a little redirector that makes sure the referrer contains one of my domains (to stop email/spam use) and now all external links go through that.
    
    I also added a page for porn spammers to go and read, and added it to all the "Edit" screens so hopefully they will go and read it.
• Login to Edit (Score:3, Interesting)

  by dws (341) on 2004.02.07 12:55 (#28170) Homepage Journal

  Several of the Wikis that I run are set up for public viewing, but require a login to edit. One of these Wikis has been up for four years, and I've received exactly one (mild) complaint.

  <plug type="shameless">
  One of the Wikis is for the AYE Conference [ayeconference.com], a no-vendor people issues in technology conference put on by a group of consultants and software managers that Gerald (Jerry) Weinberg has trained.We use the Wiki to gather feedback and suggestions about the conference sessions. Folks who register get a login and can contribute; everyone else can read along.
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• honey pots for google spammers (Score:1)

  by mock (38)

  Once upon a time when I worked in the SEO business I wrote some code which auto submitted anyone who added an url to google's spam report http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html [google.com] Worked quite nicely as a trap for our competitors. You could probably add something similar quite easily.