User talk:Luminar

WTF happened? Who the hell is this Nrudds guy and why the hell did he wreck just about every article? I can't understand why anyone would want to smash up this wiki.. Luminar 15:34, 1 March 2006 (CET)

It was a very aggressive spammer. He spammed each page with a different user created especially for that purpose. It was easier for me to revert this by first assigning all these edits to a single user.

As for why he would do this? Seems he's just unscrupulous and clueless. All external links are marked with "rel=nofollow", so search engines don't index them, and even if they would, lots of links from a single site aren't going to count more heavilly. And we don't have public access logs, so it's not going to count there either. He'll only make the spam defence more aggressive.

— SvdB 23:01, 1 March 2006 (CET)

More info on the spam posted here. — SvdB 00:17, 2 March 2006 (CET)

Anyone know how to do reversions?

What I mean is, when it says on the recent changes page (Reverted to last version by ____). I've taken the liberty of cleaning up spam every now and then, but I can't find the easy and clean way to do it. I'm assuming this is a moderator-only command? Luminar 17:03, 5 March 2006 (CET)

Yup, it's a sysop only command. Just keep making high-quality contributions and stick around long enough, and you'll be one eventually. — SvdB 18:45, 5 March 2006 (CET)

Actually, you can manually revert pages by going into their edit history and clicking on the date of the revision you want to restore. Then click edit. It will say "WARNING: You are editing an out-of-date revision of this page. If you save it, any changes made since this revision will be lost.". Save the page, and be sure to note that it was a revert in the comments.

-Fadookie 21:54, 5 March 2006 (CET)

Thanks for the help, everyone. =) - Luminar 16:45, 6 March 2006 (CET)