[02:45:49] I think they're a Chinese speaker [02:46:15] I moved Meta:Captcha to a subpage of their user page [02:46:52] If anyone here speaks their language maybe they could explain the issue to them [02:50:53] Requested deletion of that redirect [02:51:22] Also https://aika.miraheze.org/wiki/Agent_AIKa_Wiki:Users_blocked_from_the_IP_Information_tool [02:52:55] Not sure why that's still not deleted [02:53:02] @CVT [02:53:16] It was recreated [02:53:42] Oh wow [02:53:56] That's unfortunate [02:54:24] Yep, see https://discord.com/channels/407504499280707585/743072681057845378/1216846459727515708 [02:54:45] I searched AbuseIPDB and checked IP information and I think most of the B2B spam pages with vague contact information is the same spambot [02:56:24] I also wonder why they chose this title to spam at [02:56:42] My theory (which I have no evidence of) is that they try to target redlink pages [02:56:58] "Users blocked from the IP information tool" is a common redlink on special pages [02:57:17] They also sometimes create talk pages for pages that exist but have no talk page and put the spam there [02:57:20] Could be a coincidence though [02:57:25] Maybe the title is just hardcoded [02:58:11] We will probably never know [02:58:19] Yea [03:03:48] [1/4] ``` [03:03:48] [2/4] (youtube|instagram|twitter|facebook|growth)\b.*?\b(increase|subscribers|followers|service|manually|real people|prices|start from) [03:03:49] [3/4] ``` [03:03:49] [4/4] regex [03:07:44] https://dodgefulartist.miraheze.org/wiki/Category_talk:Information [03:10:34] [1/2] also can we deal with this guy who's been posting advertisements for air.ai on every wiki he visits [03:10:35] [2/2] https://r2.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Momoshisha [03:19:22] @orduin can you also remove the spam from https://dodgefulartist.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/154.22.138.74 because you seem to be tackling the spambots right now [03:20:08] [1/2] also block this IP (I already removed the spam though) [03:20:08] [2/2] https://undumped.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/154.13.164.170 [03:22:29] [1/2] https://swashsim.miraheze.org/wiki/Contact_Information? [03:22:29] [2/2] spambots in history (already removed the spam) [03:32:31] <.labster, replying to collei_no_last_name> [1/3] That might be overkill [03:32:31] <.labster, replying to collei_no_last_name> [2/3] ```perl -E 'say "match" if "twitter followers" =~ /(youtube|instagram|twitter|facebook|growth)\\b.*?\\b(increase|subscribers|followers|service|manually|real people|prices|start from)/' [03:32:31] <.labster, replying to collei_no_last_name> [3/3] match``` [03:32:53] Oh that's a good point [03:33:18] [1/3] ``` [03:33:19] [2/3] (youtube|instagram|twitter|facebook|growth)\b.*?\b(service|manually|real people|prices|start from) [03:33:19] [3/3] ``` [03:33:33] <.labster> this is weird spam because it doesn't even have outbound links [03:33:43] I'm pretty sure the spambot is misconfigured in some way [03:33:50] They're probably trying to leave their contact information but doing it wrongt [10:47:12] @.labster Could I bother you to handle an Apex vandal? [10:47:16] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Acquiescence2 [10:58:55] saying "unlock my account" followed by slurs is definitely not a way to get the account unlocked [10:59:04] infact quite the opposite [11:30:43] yep [12:07:43] apex has done this since god knows when [12:07:48] never changed, never will until proven [12:08:24] I'm not sure we have many on hand, japanese speakers yes... [12:08:51] we've gotten some chinese speakers but to put it politely they really didn't know how meta worked much at all [18:41:22] 1108-Kiju speaks some Chinese [18:41:25] IDK how much [18:41:36] zh-2 apparently [18:50:41] I'd poke him in a real pinch ie with certain wiki requests [19:58:14] @.labster @serverlessharej As board members, can you confirm this is an actual staff account? https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Alex_(Miraheze) [19:58:43] I confirm [19:58:51] In fact, that's me [19:58:59] Nice, nevermind [19:59:08] Sorry for the confusion, just wanted to verify [19:59:21] Should the account creation log not say? [20:00:08] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Log?logid=1059172 [20:00:20] I just saw it in the CVT feed and just clicked on CA [20:00:31] Should've looked in the creation log, mb [20:00:40] Not sure why @cosmicalpha didn't use his official account though [20:01:16] OrangeStar not orange [20:03:03] 😭 [20:13:27] Because as of now I only use that for T&S not SRE [20:15:35] Hmm [20:15:57] It's not mandatory after all [20:16:57] I only requested that because my main has IA and wiki creator on Meta and wanted to keep the sysadmin userrights separate [20:17:38] https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors/Policies/Accounts_Policy is the policy for those interested [20:47:09] https://tenor.com/bp75L.gif [20:51:44] Definitely an imposter [20:58:29] Orange is sus