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→Spam surge from Indian cold-callers
I know I've messaged SonOfUgly about this, but I think this wiki should be more or less restricted for the time being, like, new accounts and/or IPs should undergo probation or are restricted from performing certain actions. That or a more robust CAPTCHA and an IP address blacklist as most of them spammers come from either India or some other proxy range. Banning the latter outright might be too much, but Wikipedia has done so due to so much proxy abuse anyway. [[User:Blakegripling ph|Blakegripling ph]] ([[User talk:Blakegripling ph|talk]]) 22:21, 8 September 2017 (EDT)
:I'm thinking of something more tactful in theory. Think about how useful a phone number is to a hub relating to emulation and emulators; nobody's gonna be calling emu-devs for assistance... the open-source software often includes an anti-warranty bit saying creators are not obligated to help people if they have problems with the software. So why do we need phone numbers here anyways? Why not set up a bot or an extension that tracks this kind of activity, either revert if it's done on an existing page, or delete if it's the only revision, and then just block the IP or user indefinitely? Even if they create tons of sockpuppets or switch IP addresses, its of no advantage to them simply because the act of doing it would get them blocked. If there isn't something like that that currently exists elsewhere, then we may actually have a problem. Also, the captcha in place can easily be macro'd around since it only asks two questions. We really do need something more robust. [[User:FosterHaven|FosterHaven]] ([[User talk:FosterHaven|talk]]) 00:47, 9 September 2017 (EDT)
