Vandalism again!
Dec 21st, 2019 by finnegan
Sorry y’all, I dropped the ball. When I upgraded the MediaWiki software back in November, I forgot that one critical little setting that prevents asshole spammers from creating new accounts. They found it, and created over 55,000 new accounts since then, and over 60,000 edits. I’m in the process of cleaning it up now, which fortunately is mostly automated, and they won’t be able to create new accounts.
If you’re a legitimate user since then, and/or you created legitimate edits since then, well, I’m sorry to tell you, you and/or those edits are gone. No way I could read through everything to determine legit vs non-legit, there was just too much of it. Now we’re back ot the old policy. Manual user creation only. Contact me and tell me why you want an account on the Wiki, and we’ll go from there. Can’t have nice things anymore without weight loss and casino spammers trying to ruin it. At least it wasn’t mostly big dick pills this time.
Hi Bob
My account (Username: Eroica) was nuked as collateral damage. Now, when I try to edit, I get the following message:
“Your username or IP address has been blocked.
The block was made by Finnegan. The reason given is Users blocked by BlockandNuke..
Start of block: 10:50, 21 December 2019
Expiration of block: infinite
Intended blockee: Eroica
You can contact Finnegan or another administrator to discuss the block. You cannot use the “Email this user” feature unless a valid email address is specified in your account preferences and you have not been blocked from using it. Your current IP address is 109.255.161.58, and the block ID is #32. Please include all above details in any queries you make.
I would be grateful if you could rectify this situation. I love the
FinnegansWiki site and have been contributing to it for years.
Thanks.
Brendan Ward
Try again now.