David 'DJ' Hedley wrote:
Tonight there have been two incidents i've noticed
where mass-spambots have
been set on to the English Wikipedia. These spambots have been blanking
articles probably at a rate of 100 articles a minute, and as that is the
time it is normally taking an admin to notice and block the bots are causing
a lot of disruption.
I don't know where these bots have come from, but they seem capable of
quickly deleting content. The contributions for [[User:Whoever blocks me has
no life!]] shows what I mean.
That's a vandalbot, not a spambot. They come from sad, morally vacuous
people who are jealous of what we have achieved and want the whole world
to be as empty as their own life. As opposed to a spambot which is
written by people who want to make a bit of money, and who rationalise
away the ethical problems with their chosen method.
-- Tim Starling