Topic on User talk:Jurjendevries

Jurjendevries ConfirmEdit is an extension that is installed as part of the mandatory wiki configuration on Miraheze, as I understand it, and, from the looks of it, it looks like it's part of MediaWiki core now. So, the spam only accounts seem to be able to solve the captcha challenge questions, I'm assuming? I do know spam farms do tend to employ humans to solve captcha questions for the automated spambots. If that's not the case here, then perhaps the captcha questions are too easy for the spambots to solve? At any rate, absent a stricter change to the global abuse filters, in which case we have to weigh the potential for false positives being ensnared by such filters, I'm not sure what more we should besides just leaving (Main) namespace limited to autoconfirmed or confirmed users since that seems to be working (i.e., the spambots aren't smart enough to edit in other namespaces first). You could also write a local abuse filter, if you have sufficient knowledge of the MediaWiki abuse filter regex that could warn, disallow, and/or block any spam only accounts that post an external link. Blocks could be short term (less than a week) to ensure any false positives are not indefinitely blocked. Something like that, perhaps? Let me ask Reception123, a Global Sysop, if he has any other ideas.