Thread:Project:Support desk/Getting slammed by bots - countermeasures?/reply (4)

Huh. I'm really baffled why the software doesn't have better functionality to manage users & specifically delete bot accounts & messages, especially when it's such a target for spam. My wiki was on a small site, no incoming links, and the project was on the backburner so I didn't check it for a couple months. Now I have thousands & thousands of fake accounts & posts (along with all their edits re-saved), and there doesn't appear to be any way to cull them in bulk.

Of course in hindsight I would have implemented some of the measures you linked to, but mitigating the damage that has been done would seem to be a very difficult task with the tools available. Kind of a drag.