Last modified: 2006-05-12 16:10:02 UTC
The spam filter causes trouble - for example, now we cannot edit the page specified above. The problem is the text "overflow: auto; height:", I don't know why. Please fix or cancel the whole filter.
By the way, "overflow: scroll" doesn't cause such problems. Please fix this bug.
It's not a bug. The spam filter is working fine. The problem is that our wikis, and a lot of other wikis, suffer from frequent spam which is injected into pages in "invisible" divs, with a style approximately similar to: <div style="overflow: auto; height: 1px;">{...}</div> Where {...} represents a ton of URLs to various web sites. I believe that a regex was hard coded into the configuration for all our wikis to prevent this behaviour.
Well, what about tinyurl? This filter is not useful - the spamer can just replacing the tiny address with the real one - and causes troubles.
TinyURL introduces a number of problems, many of which have been discussed before. We're talking about a redirection service which you don't control; it could be taken over or compromised at any time, and all those links could end up pointing somewhere else. You also can't preview where the link goes; some spammer could be slapping in links to a reincarnation of Goatse or a Last Measure site. If the spammer uses the real URL instead, then of course, that goes on the blacklist too.
