User:Fordsfords
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Hi. I'm Steve. Here's what I've been doing lately.
[edit] Vandalism
I've been enjoying reverting spam and vandalism. It's fun!
My current technique is:
- Display "recent changes", hiding logged-in users, and displaying 500 of them.
- Wait a few hours for other people to revert most of them.
- Start at the bottom and select a diff.
- While (have 5 minutes or so) {
- If (spam or valdalsim) {
- revert if not yet reverted
- display that IP address user's other contribs
- For each diff for that user, check and revert if appropriate
- }
- select next diff up (on list of 500)
- If (spam or valdalsim) {
- }
The key is checking the other diffs for the vandal's IP. It feels good when I find a non-reverted vandalism or spam that is weeks or even months old.
I don't use any of the fancy tools I see other people using. I should probably learn more about some of them, choose one, and use it.
[edit] Networking
I've also been working on some of the messaging stuff and plan to do more with multicast.
