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Old 04-18-2025, 05:57 PM
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Old 04-18-2025, 09:10 PM
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Thank you sir, another batch has been cleared!

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the keywords in the spam get picked up by search engine crawler bots and helps with their page ranking or some such shit i bet is the idea

cause nobody human is gonna fall for those posts rofl
Exactly ... except that Google isn't stupid. Based on what I know of SEO, when Google evaluates a "backlink" they take the source heavily into account. This means a link to (say) a biofuel article ... on a 1999 video game wiki ... won't help much.

This guy's approach would work great for promoting a fantasy RPG, but I strongly suspect all the junk in our wiki (for insurance and gambling and such) isn't even giving him 0.01% more page rank ... which makes it all the more frustrating that he wastes our time with it.
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Old 04-18-2025, 09:15 PM
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Also did this one!
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Old 04-18-2025, 09:56 PM
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Thanks for doing this btw. Terrible that someone thinks he should abuse a free wiki.
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Old 04-20-2025, 01:52 AM
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What a shame, there were some pages I wanted to fix up, as well as add info to. I also have a fixed gequip.s3d file, which fixes tiny torches bug in the EQ Classic HD texture pack, and I wanted to add that as well to the EQCHD wiki page.

Do we have any idea when the sign ups for the wiki will be available again? I really want hoping to be able to help out here with the wiki and its a shame the account creation is disabled. I understand it's because of spammers, but it still sucks. A wiki without people to edit it is missing its most crucial perk.

Really hope this gets resolved soon :/
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Old 04-20-2025, 11:29 AM
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Awesome, another batch cleaned! Based off those I also did "dating" and "exercise", and altogether that was probably another fifty or so spam links removed.

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What a shame, there were some pages I wanted to fix up, as well as add info to. I also have a fixed gequip.s3d file, which fixes tiny torches bug in the EQ Classic HD texture pack, and I wanted to add that as well to the EQCHD wiki page.

Do we have any idea when the sign ups for the wiki will be available again? I really want hoping to be able to help out here with the wiki and its a shame the account creation is disabled. I understand it's because of spammers, but it still sucks. A wiki without people to edit it is missing its most crucial perk.

Really hope this gets resolved soon :/
Short version: Like everything else here, it depends on the staff, and the staff isn't big on keeping us players in the loop (on anything) ... so it could be a day or it could be a year.

Longer version: We need a CAPTCHA to re-enable the signup (without letting in spam). Only two people that I'm aware of have the capability: me and Rahvin (the one true wiki god ... who unfortunately hasn't played here in years, and so isn't super motivated).

I volunteered my services to Rogean in PM, but he didn't even respond yes or no. I suspect that means that Rahvin is looking into a solution (out of the kindness of his heart, since again he doesn't actually play P99), and Rogean didn't want the headache of another person having access to the box.

If that's the case, wiki signups should be re-enabled whenever Rahvin gets a CAPTCHA working ... but if you want a better answer, you'd need to PM Rogean or Rahvin. And honestly, if signups don't come back after a while, you probably should do that just to remind them that it's still an issue.
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Old 04-20-2025, 06:18 PM
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Old 04-21-2025, 06:16 PM
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edit: oh i see what we're doing, searching for keywords
Yeah, there are so many that doing it link by link would take forever.

Great list, a bunch more spam links have been removed (and their fake users banned)!
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