Whoa there. If I'm self-proclaimed, why do I serve as mentor to the Icynub and slavemaster to the horde?

:smarty:

Wow, I made a Warcraft reference.

:cries:

I do not think that Entropy has given me the permissions. That would be core administrative duties, and my duties lie in the superficial realm of banning and slavedriving.

Yes.

Isnt that wat slavemaster does?

Being a slavemaster means I sit in bed daily.

And eat.

And do no legitimate work.

Aha, I will do that now.

The oppression of slaves shall continue no more. The slavemaster is no longer useful to the slaves. Rise, comrades! Let the blood of the slavemaster be spilt! It is time for a revolution. Be very afraid, Triumph.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...sickle.svg.png

I LOL'd at this thread.

By the way, you all have forgotten Ralath's suggestion: image verification. I don't think bots are sophisticated enough to be able to "read" the texts in the randomly generated images yet. It is an awesome anti-bot feature, I believe.

Image verification upon saving an edit, for unregistered users only.
The step is unnecessary for registered users.

That would work, but the wiki software needs to have the feature.

Bring it on...

That is nothing compared to my abusive admin star.

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Uh... Gah! :zomg:

Omg, your icon is more über :cries:

Image verification is good but in the case like what happened there I'm sure the bot would be able to handle the image verification. There are a few that can work trough it. I would do something around the line of Edits require image verification, New page requires registration + 10 edits of 24 hours. Basically, to make new pages you have to edit 10 pages and those edits be unreverted for 24 hours. This would limit the ability to make a new page to those who have proved they are not spamming. There are very few reasons to make a new page but I have done it a time or two when the page did not exist or I just did not look in the right place.

Now, did someone say something about a slave revolt? Hum... guess I missed that memo. Why don't they tell the slaves anything? How we supposed to revolt without communication with each other? It's hard having a slave life.

P.S. Great job on the rings page Icy :) I like how it turned out.

How about something like this: show an image and they answer via multiple choice what it is, or something like "Complete the pattern" type of thing. It will give some much needed exercise, (JK) and prevent bots from spamming, since they have no brains at all.