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I ran a world-writable off-the-shelf wiki for years. Trivially tweaked the edit url, visible on every page. But that was enough to break automated spam tooling defaults, so the spamming human might get to see a note, pointing out that robots.txt was blocking indexing, so there was really no reason to waste both our times. The dominant threat wasn't the spammer, but their dumb automation.



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