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Catbert Since: Jan, 2012
#1: Mar 13th 2013 at 5:31:59 AM

Lately there have been a lot a troll attacks by creating unauthorized subpages related to Fast Eddie and the Content Policy pages.

I was wondering if there my be a way of putting a curtain over any non-auhorized pages using the terms Fast Eddie, Content Policy, 5P, and perhaps also the names of mods and the 5P memmbers. This would work kinda like the rape screen we had, which blanked even non-existant pages with the word "Rape", but would exempt already existing authorized pages.

Not being a programer or webmaster I have no idea if this is feasable, but I thought it might save us the trouble of being only able to respond to these pages after they are already created and are visible to the public.

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#2: Mar 13th 2013 at 6:52:55 AM

Wikipedia has a system to lock pages based on their name, so it's probably feasible.

The thing to check is if these troll attacks will continue for long or eventually ebb off as troll attacks usually do after some time.

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#3: Feb 16th 2016 at 8:41:57 PM

Bump; worth looking into?

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#4: Feb 16th 2016 at 11:24:54 PM

We'd need this in 2.0 to prevent the recreation of certain pages, but it's not inherently part of that design, so still worth looking into.

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#5: Nov 4th 2016 at 1:36:42 PM

Probably unneeded for now, so closing.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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