Thread:Project:Support desk/spam users/reply (4)

Yes, I have improved things and spam is rare now, but I had to learn everything the hard way. Information on setting up a wiki well to guard against spam was not that easy to find/learn (at least, not for me).

I don't want things so locked down that people have to contact me in order to post anything at all. How would I even provide a spam-proof way for them to contact me? I added captcha for account creation, which was brilliantly successful for a few weeks, then I started getting seriously spammed anyway. Then I restricted edits to emailconfirmed users, and now I just get an account created every week or so. Even if I started back at 0 spam accounts, this would still probably outpace my real users.

So now I'm seriously considering nuking the entire wiki and manually adding back the users and content worth keeping. :( Is that really my best option?