Spamhuntress

I’ve noticed that my wikis had way too many users, and guessed most of them belonged to spammers. But what I didn’t know, was that most of them are recent. One wiki had around 440 users, and around the 26th of September, what appears to be one particular spammer, started creating users en mass. The wiki had 150 users up until then. The other blog had over 1500 users before I started deleting.
I recently had to close edits to anyone but logged in users, to try to stem the tide, in addition to using Bad Behavior. And if I have loads of already created users just waiting to be used by a spammer, I have a problem!

So check your database, and look at the users. I bet you’ll find lots of users you can safely delete!

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