General Discussion

Move Bot Banning section down the page

Does anyone care if I move the Bot Banning section down the page so that it is underneath the normal reporting area. When it gets a bit long, it gets annoying scrolling down to the main reporting area. ~ _{16:02, 4 January 2012 (UTC)}

I wouldn't mind and can see your reasoning. Just leave Template:VBarchivenav at the very bottom, so that it remains easy to be found. -- Spiderzed █ 16:39, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

K. I'll wait a little bit longer and do it tomorrow if there's no real objection. ~

_{16:43, 4 January 2012 (UTC)}

No objection. --Like Moss and The Dude..... 18:26, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

No objection.--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 19:18, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Went ahead and moved it. ~ _{20:04, 4 January 2012 (UTC)}

Objection on no grounds what so ever!--User:Sexualharrison23:27, 4 January 2012 (bst)

I OBJECT! No I don't really, at all. And that's what I have to add here. -- AHLG T G THE END IS NIGH! 00:25, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

	OBJECTION!
	Vapor has an objection.

In before Axe Hack. ~

_{01:09, 5 January 2012 (UTC)}

I'd be ok with removing it altogether from A/VB and replacing the section's contents with a soft redirect. --Karek^{maps 2.0?!} 17:40, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm all for that if you're on board now. ~

_{22:24, 6 January 2012 (UTC)}

Vanished Comments

If anyone can get the right comments back please do. I don't have time to search them up but the histories are now merged. They're hidden in the revisions right now because of the re-merging of the A/VB pages. You'll only need to find the most recent revision of the A/VB talk comments. --Karek^{maps 2.0?!} 02:17, 16 May 2011 (BST)

I'm really not sure what happened to them. I believe it may have had something to do with when you moved A/VB to UDWiki:Administration/Vandal Banning/Archive1. It looks like discussion archives were created with the exact naming structure (see above) and probably when you moved the page you checked "move associated talk page" but when prompted you (wisely) told the wiki not to delete the existing discussion page. That's my best guess. Anyway, I can't find the comments and I don't really know what I'm looking for. They may be gone forever unless you can figure out how to dig them up yourself. ~

_{07:42, 9 July 2011 (UTC)}

I know where they are and how to get them it's just a time to do it issue. --Karek^{maps 2.0?!} 09:18, 9 July 2011 (BST)

Bots Discussion

Return of old, already banned, bots

Over the past couple of days, bots who were previous banned have been spamming again. Has the recent update of the wiki somehow unbanned them? -- boxy 10:35, 27 December 2014 (BST)

Hmm

It's been a few years, but we're getting a wave of bots again. Thoughts? Bob Moncrief ^EBD•W! 01:57, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hopefully it's just a random burst, not a consistent thing? -- AHLG T G THE END IS NIGH! 04:26, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

More spammers stuck inside? I gather fraud attempts are way up at the moment. --Ross less ne s s^{Want a Location Image?} 08:01, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Has it been going on for a while? Like beyond this week? DANCEDANCEREVO LUTION 10:11, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

No, not yet. I just realized I've gotten complacent because we've had so few. If it continues for more than a week or so we can ponder other options. Bob Moncrief ^EBD•W! 17:19, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hopefully it's just a flareup for now... DANCEDANCEREVO LUTION 23:31, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, like acne. -- AHLG T G THE END IS NIGH! 23:36, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Yeah.... acne.... DANCEDANCEREVO LUTION 00:14, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Anyone want to review this? They're still here, and popping them isn't helping. -- AHLG T G THE END IS NIGH! 22:33, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Do you think the captcha needs to be updated? If so I can try to get in touch with Kev. Bob Moncrief ^EBD•W! 14:36, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Considering we all have better things to do than continuously ban spambots, probably worth asking! stelar ^{Talk|MCM|EBD|Scourge} 20:47, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

I guess whoever has his ear, go for it. -- AHLG T G THE END IS NIGH! 23:47, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Block Logs

Someone with indepth wiki knowledge:

Is there a way to have the system differentiate between certain categories of blocks? If you look through the block logs, it's a shit ton of spam bots. If there is anyway in the wiki technicals to be able to block them and shuffle them into another category, it'd be a bit more clean looking. Like a tick box when blocking for spambots. Obviously not a big deal, who actually looks through the block logs anyway? I just somehow ended up on the page and it was terrible to look at.

Fucking bots.--SA 00:34, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

The closest we can do is set some options for when we actually block them (i.e. have the reason we block them already filled in with the fact that they're a bot), but as far as filters and checkboxes on that page go, it's something we can't do. You'd need access to the actual code driving the wiki in order to do that, so you'd need to talk to Kevan. —Aich on— 07:07, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Thats what I wanted to know about. Which means we're still boned. :| --SA 12:59, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

User:The Goth Store Owner

*snif* *snif* I smell drama. Is there drama ? OH MA GOSH IS DRAMA!!! --hagnat 21:39, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

The sooner they learn that 90% of this dispute should be on A/Arbitration the sooner I can sleep at night. A ZOMBIE ANT 01:07, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Is there a minimum time cases need to stay on the main VB page? Can't this shit just be moved to archives and locked? --_K^CLZA 21:48, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

A/VB is now archived on an annual basis, so it'll be cycled in January 2016. Bob Moncrief ^EBD•W! 21:54, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

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