Sadly the unwashed masses on the internet are not concerned about security because they don't understand it. These are the people who fall for phishing mails, don't keep their AV up to date or blindly click ok on every dialog box that pops up on their system ( a response re-inforced by Vista's insistance on user interaction to do anything ).
Expecting these people to use a wired keyboard to improve their security is pointless. They use wireless keyboards because they are "cool" or so that they don't have to mess around with all those untidy cables.
Now to me this reads just like some of the more out there conspiracy theory sites. You know the ones, the world is being controlled by alien lizards, the UN is plotting to overthrough the US govt. that sort of stuff. See what you think.
Nobody's put their finger on this yet in a systematic way. Maybe it's for lack of time; maybe people's brains are wired differently. I need to show you not just what Wikipedia Review is doing to us, but how they're doing it.
And I'm setting this forth as a brief seminar so you can do more than recognize when it's presented to you; you can find these signs yourselves.
The one thing I have to ask is that you all be very tight lipped about this.
Here's a troublemaker whose username is two exclamation points with no letters. !!
It's what I would call "ripened sock" - a padded history of redirects, minor edits, and some DYK work. Some of the folks at WR do this to game the community's good faith. I can tell immediately that it's not the user's first account. Soon you'll see the telltale signs as quickly as I do.
A. In their efforts to deceive us, they forget that new users haven't learned edit summaries and wikimarkup.
B. They do wikignome work far too early in the account history to be genuine wikignomes. The purpose is to pad the account history with a track record of positive contributions that will insulate them against the banhammer later on.
This user favors redirects and stub creations. Others do RC patrol or copyediting. They continue for days, weeks, or perhaps a few months playing "useful editor."
C. Many of them tip their hands occasionally during the preparation phase.
This user slips for the joy of trolling. Others let down their guard momentarily for WR-related incidents. Look for behavior that seems out of character such as a sudden cluster of talk page posts or odd edit summaries.
Sounds like the OP has been playing FFXI Online rather than WoW, especially with regard to the boss spawns and queing to kill a particular mob. 72hr Spawn timer, oh joy.
I agree with you on most of the points you made with the exception of the gold spam. Spend any length of time in one of the home cities and you will get gold spam. The latest trick is to log on a trash toon, spam one or twice and log striaght off again. This means you can't then add that toon to your ignore list, although you can still report them for spamming. Whether that actually achieves anything is a nother quuestion.
But thinking about gettng on for Christmass. The thing that puts me off is that in order to play these "casual, group orientated games" I have to go and buy at least one, and probably more, extra controllers for it. Additional controllers are a significant fraction of the basic purchase price. If I want to play multiplayer Wii sports etc with the kids on Christmass day, I can't do it "out of the box".
Hardcore consoles are aimed at hardcore players, usually playing solo or online for multiplayer. The big selling point of the Wii is to play games together in the same room. Not putting at least one extra controller in the pack kills that immediately.
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Sadly the unwashed masses on the internet are not concerned about security because they don't understand it. These are the people who fall for phishing mails, don't keep their AV up to date or blindly click ok on every dialog box that pops up on their system ( a response re-inforced by Vista's insistance on user interaction to do anything ). Expecting these people to use a wired keyboard to improve their security is pointless. They use wireless keyboards because they are "cool" or so that they don't have to mess around with all those untidy cables.
Nobody's put their finger on this yet in a systematic way. Maybe it's for lack of time; maybe people's brains are wired differently. I need to show you not just what Wikipedia Review is doing to us, but how they're doing it.
And I'm setting this forth as a brief seminar so you can do more than recognize when it's presented to you; you can find these signs yourselves.
The one thing I have to ask is that you all be very tight lipped about this.
First, the good news:
1. They're working from the same playbook. 2. They don't know this list exists. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=167325580&oldid=167325471
Now, the case study:
Here's a troublemaker whose username is two exclamation points with no letters. !!
It's what I would call "ripened sock" - a padded history of redirects, minor edits, and some DYK work. Some of the folks at WR do this to game the community's good faith. I can tell immediately that it's not the user's first account. Soon you'll see the telltale signs as quickly as I do.
A. In their efforts to deceive us, they forget that new users haven't learned edit summaries and wikimarkup.
Edit summary on the first edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Kerr&diff=prev&oldid=141874955
Correct use of page links on the second edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ben_Brocklehurst&diff=prev&oldid=141877151
Knows how to create line references on the third edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Claude_Pompidou&diff=prev&oldid=142914869
Creates an appropriately formatted stub on the fourth edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colin_Rimer&diff=prev&oldid=142927003
B. They do wikignome work far too early in the account history to be genuine wikignomes. The purpose is to pad the account history with a track record of positive contributions that will insulate them against the banhammer later on.
Redirects a page on the seventh edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%8Ele-St-Louis&diff=prev&oldid=144015208
This user favors redirects and stub creations. Others do RC patrol or copyediting. They continue for days, weeks, or perhaps a few months playing "useful editor."
C. Many of them tip their hands occasionally during the preparation phase.
Obscene trolling; knows German: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Academic_Challenger&diff=prev&oldid=156788817
This user slips for the joy of trolling. Others let down their guard momentarily for WR-related incidents. Look for behavior that seems out of character such as a sudden cluster of talk page posts or odd edit summaries.
D. They are team players.
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Stealing office supplies
Sounds like the OP has been playing FFXI Online rather than WoW, especially with regard to the boss spawns and queing to kill a particular mob. 72hr Spawn timer, oh joy. I agree with you on most of the points you made with the exception of the gold spam. Spend any length of time in one of the home cities and you will get gold spam. The latest trick is to log on a trash toon, spam one or twice and log striaght off again. This means you can't then add that toon to your ignore list, although you can still report them for spamming. Whether that actually achieves anything is a nother quuestion.
But thinking about gettng on for Christmass. The thing that puts me off is that in order to play these "casual, group orientated games" I have to go and buy at least one, and probably more, extra controllers for it. Additional controllers are a significant fraction of the basic purchase price. If I want to play multiplayer Wii sports etc with the kids on Christmass day, I can't do it "out of the box". Hardcore consoles are aimed at hardcore players, usually playing solo or online for multiplayer. The big selling point of the Wii is to play games together in the same room. Not putting at least one extra controller in the pack kills that immediately.