@Tinuviel I wasn't actually responding about general best practices, though. The question was about a MU* wiki with a spambot problem, so my answer was specifically about that. You snarked at @ixokai about acting like his way was the "only way ever" but you have been equally snarky throughout this thread for no particular reason I can identify.
@Tinuviel said in Wiki best practices:
@Roz Sure, they're not having a problem with malicious people. But this is still about security. Solve all the problems you can, not just one. Captcha is fine, if you don't mind anyone that can look through a wiki to get information (or a game, or whatever source you choose). And if it's game specific, you'd better remember to keep the captcha question and answer up to date. Like how wikis are always up to date.
You pick a question and answer that's easy/fundamental to the game, not something that changes.
Locking account creation out is a set it and forget it option, that works every time.
It's -- literally the opposite of a set it and forget it option. Because you set it and then have to create every new account manually. So you set it and -- do it repeatedly every time it needs doing.
If you never have an issue with malicious players trying to wreck stuff, you just made a bunch of continual work for yourself for no reason in the name of "solving all the problems you can."
@Tinuviel said in Wiki best practices:
@Roz No. One allows anyone to sign up and edit whatever. The other requires that they be a person known to the admin. It might be "more work" but it serves a purpose that captcha doesn't fill.
It allows anyone on your game to sign up, yeah. (Hence using a simple question CAPTCHA that requires familiarity with the game/being on the game to hit a command.) The OP's problem is combatting bots, not combatting malicious players.
@SG Do you mean you installed the ConfirmEdit extension? This shouldn't affect your wiki account permissions either way -- your user permissions are set by the various Users and Rights Special Pages. Your wiki has to have an admin account that would have been defined during the actual MW install process.
(Also, I have no idea what "is there a way to do this in kitty?" means. I'm sorry.)
@Tinuviel I get that that's the point? Both of the solutions accomplish the same thing. I'm saying that one of them is a one-time setup and one of them requires repeated admin work forever.
@Tinuviel Yeah, but a much more annoying and ongoing hassle for the admins. CAPTCHA you set up once and forget about it.
I use the ConfirmEdit CAPTCHA extension to control user registration instead of leaving it open. I specifically use the QuestyCaptcha option, which lets you define a question and answer. I do something that's pretty straightforward based on the theme or the game (and sometimes have a +wiki command or something similar that spits out the answer on-game). (Like, for the Arx unofficial player wiki, I made it something like "Who's the head GM on game?")
@Arkandel said in Hobby Glossary:
@Roz said in Hobby Glossary:
@Arkandel said in Hobby Glossary:
@Roz said in Hobby Glossary:
Mav is one of the first that comes to mind.
I swear, I never figured out what 'mav' stands for. Mis-...something?
It's short for Maverick, a player from what back when (I think on AmberMUSH?) who was notorious for mis-paging/talking on the wrong channel. So the term got coined as a shortening of his name.
Seriously? Damn, that guy got immortalized!
Right? I actually just recently came across a player who says he actually knew him. First time I'd actually run into someone who had.
@Arkandel said in Hobby Glossary:
@Roz said in Hobby Glossary:
Mav is one of the first that comes to mind.
I swear, I never figured out what 'mav' stands for. Mis-...something?
It's short for Maverick, a player from what back when (I think on AmberMUSH?) who was notorious for mis-paging/talking on the wrong channel. So the term got coined as a shortening of his name.
@Auspice said in Random links:
@Roz said in Random links:
@Arkandel Eh, can't say I disagree with them.
I don't disagree either, but it's somewhat silly to get up in arms over.
Which quoted fan comments from that article were "up in arms," exactly? Like, is complaining at all about it being "up in arms?" The complaints quoted were pretty tame and mostly sounded long-suffering to me. (Like: "Ah yes, yet again the woman magically bereft of body hair in the situation where she would totally have it. We meet again.")
I feel really sorry for the OP of this thread. 
It's the only social media I use from the western world because, frankly, social media in the west is toxic sludge and I only have X amount of energy to spend wading into the slime pool to find the drain.
do you realize what this website is
Better by at least an order of magnitude than any social media site out there?
sure but this website is also social media
It's the only social media I use from the western world because, frankly, social media in the west is toxic sludge and I only have X amount of energy to spend wading into the slime pool to find the drain.
do you realize what this website is
@Seraphim73 said in Where's your RP at?:
On the case of an economic system, @Ganymede and @WTFE (I quite agree with your list, by the way), it sounds like the idea economic system would:
- Require no more than 1-2 inputs every 24 hours at most.
Every 24 hours seems way too much. What about weekly?
@Ghost Sorry, are you trying to say that if a game doesn't have non-consent PC death, it's not a real game??
Yeah, agree with @saosmash. Deepwood is the only house in that situation among a bunch of houses. It sounds like you were as helpful as you could have been. Not sure why they were particularly determined to be a Deepwood noble, but. It's not your fault they're all dead!