Thread:Project:Support desk/Overwhelmed with spammers/reply (10)

It helps to have a very active group looking through Special:Recentchanges reverting the spam as it comes. We do use SpamBlacklist and ConfirmEdit to help prevent spam. People who add spam do get blocked which helps to deal with it (Some of whom get blocked globally across all Wikimedia wikis. There's a group at meta - Small_Wiki_Monitoring_Team that helps out smaller Wikimedia wikis dealing with spam). I have no idea how much it effects anything, but certain user-agents are blocked at the server level (My understanding is that that is more to deal with people who overload servers with badly programmed bots then to deal with the spammers). Certain types of spam can be blocked by the AbuseFilter, but I don't think that has a major effect, at least on this wiki. There's also extension:AntiBot which does secret things to prevent spam bots. What it does I have no idea, and to be honest I'm somewhat doubtful it has a major effect, but who knows. (That's all I can think of. Quite possibly there's more stuff I'm not even aware of)