Talk:1457: Feedback - Revision history

81.179.199.253 at 20:32, 18 May 2026

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《プロキシ》: /* Sad but Wild */

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‎Sad but Wild

《プロキシ》 at 13:35, 18 May 2026

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DollarStoreBa'al at 14:33, 22 October 2025

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DollarStoreBa'al: /* Sad but Wild */

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‎Sad but Wild

82.132.244.90 at 06:00, 18 September 2025

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DollarStoreBa'al at 22:57, 17 September 2025

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DollarStoreBa'al at 22:57, 17 September 2025

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42.book.addict: responding to calibanscreations

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responding to calibanscreations

172.68.205.164 at 18:19, 20 April 2025

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	I already tried to revert it and failed. The name does seem to be a problem, weird that this doesn’t happen to the site tbh. 《プロキシ》(XKCD中毒者) 13:35, 18 May 2026 (UTC)		I already tried to revert it and failed. The name does seem to be a problem, weird that this doesn’t happen to the site tbh. 《プロキシ》(XKCD中毒者) 13:35, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
	UPDATE- I mean the actual xkcd website, not explain xkcd. Apologize for any misunderstandings (which probably didn’t happen between five minutes ago in my original and now. 《プロキシ》(XKCD中毒者) 13:40, 18 May 2026 (UTC)		UPDATE- I mean the actual xkcd website, not explain xkcd. Apologize for any misunderstandings (which probably didn’t happen between five minutes ago in my original and now. 《プロキシ》(XKCD中毒者) 13:40, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
		+	:On the first post... You're trying to revert what..? The [[1457: Feedback]] page looks to not have needed reverting since last November (as I write, at least).
		+	:On the second... If you're wondering why xkcd.com/1457 doesn't suffer... the comic pages don't keep themselves 'open' to such changes by third parties, and they don't have "/feeback" names (the closest is the https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/feedback.png image file, which is yet another different kind of prospect from malicious changing).
		+	:Or am I misreading your concerns/questions? [[Special:Contributions/81.179.199.253\|81.179.199.253]] 20:32, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

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	:::How does anybody fall for this? --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 14:33, 22 October 2025 (UTC)		:::How does anybody fall for this? --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 14:33, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
	I already tried to revert it and failed. The name does seem to be a problem, weird that this doesn’t happen to the site tbh. 《プロキシ》(XKCD中毒者) 13:35, 18 May 2026 (UTC)		I already tried to revert it and failed. The name does seem to be a problem, weird that this doesn’t happen to the site tbh. 《プロキシ》(XKCD中毒者) 13:35, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
		+	UPDATE- I mean the actual xkcd website, not explain xkcd. Apologize for any misunderstandings (which probably didn’t happen between five minutes ago in my original and now. 《プロキシ》(XKCD中毒者) 13:40, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

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	::If they were trying to idiot-trap, they came to the wrong site. I enjoy idiot-traps though, simply to get a nice laugh out of them. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 13:41, 18 September 2025 (UTC)		::If they were trying to idiot-trap, they came to the wrong site. I enjoy idiot-traps though, simply to get a nice laugh out of them. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 13:41, 18 September 2025 (UTC)
	:::How does anybody fall for this? --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 14:33, 22 October 2025 (UTC)		:::How does anybody fall for this? --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 14:33, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
		+	I already tried to revert it and failed. The name does seem to be a problem, weird that this doesn’t happen to the site tbh. 《プロキシ》(XKCD中毒者) 13:35, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

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	:If you're considering it sad that nobody ''else'' has bothered to edit anything (only spammers and spam-reverters), that might just be that nothing more needs to be changed. Like many other pages might be ok, for long periods of time until ''someone'' has a good and legitimate idea for a tweak. From my decades of web (and other internet-related) experience, however, I'm not going to let myself feel emotionally affected by this level of spammer chancerism. (Well, mostly. I had to chuckle a bit at the awfulness of the recently reverted 'feedback' message. If it wasn't an idiot-trap, it was quite the most awful spamming I've seen recently, except for the frw ones that don't even remember to leave 'contact details'!) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.244.90\|82.132.244.90]] 06:00, 18 September 2025 (UTC)		:If you're considering it sad that nobody ''else'' has bothered to edit anything (only spammers and spam-reverters), that might just be that nothing more needs to be changed. Like many other pages might be ok, for long periods of time until ''someone'' has a good and legitimate idea for a tweak. From my decades of web (and other internet-related) experience, however, I'm not going to let myself feel emotionally affected by this level of spammer chancerism. (Well, mostly. I had to chuckle a bit at the awfulness of the recently reverted 'feedback' message. If it wasn't an idiot-trap, it was quite the most awful spamming I've seen recently, except for the frw ones that don't even remember to leave 'contact details'!) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.244.90\|82.132.244.90]] 06:00, 18 September 2025 (UTC)
	::If they were trying to idiot-trap, they came to the wrong site. I enjoy idiot-traps though, simply to get a nice laugh out of them. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 13:41, 18 September 2025 (UTC)		::If they were trying to idiot-trap, they came to the wrong site. I enjoy idiot-traps though, simply to get a nice laugh out of them. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 13:41, 18 September 2025 (UTC)
		+	:::How does anybody fall for this? --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 14:33, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

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	:It is 'wild' that happens and, of the estimated 800 million of so 'inactive and unmaintained' sites, there will be so many places with 'open' Feedback/etc pages where such spam builds up (perhaps even publicly). But, like here, other places will have enough responsiveness to have a 'Feedback' page yet generally confine all such probings to history (or, at least, the History pages - which are a mixed blessing, in this case).		:It is 'wild' that happens and, of the estimated 800 million of so 'inactive and unmaintained' sites, there will be so many places with 'open' Feedback/etc pages where such spam builds up (perhaps even publicly). But, like here, other places will have enough responsiveness to have a 'Feedback' page yet generally confine all such probings to history (or, at least, the History pages - which are a mixed blessing, in this case).
	:If you're considering it sad that nobody ''else'' has bothered to edit anything (only spammers and spam-reverters), that might just be that nothing more needs to be changed. Like many other pages might be ok, for long periods of time until ''someone'' has a good and legitimate idea for a tweak. From my decades of web (and other internet-related) experience, however, I'm not going to let myself feel emotionally affected by this level of spammer chancerism. (Well, mostly. I had to chuckle a bit at the awfulness of the recently reverted 'feedback' message. If it wasn't an idiot-trap, it was quite the most awful spamming I've seen recently, except for the frw ones that don't even remember to leave 'contact details'!) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.244.90\|82.132.244.90]] 06:00, 18 September 2025 (UTC)		:If you're considering it sad that nobody ''else'' has bothered to edit anything (only spammers and spam-reverters), that might just be that nothing more needs to be changed. Like many other pages might be ok, for long periods of time until ''someone'' has a good and legitimate idea for a tweak. From my decades of web (and other internet-related) experience, however, I'm not going to let myself feel emotionally affected by this level of spammer chancerism. (Well, mostly. I had to chuckle a bit at the awfulness of the recently reverted 'feedback' message. If it wasn't an idiot-trap, it was quite the most awful spamming I've seen recently, except for the frw ones that don't even remember to leave 'contact details'!) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.244.90\|82.132.244.90]] 06:00, 18 September 2025 (UTC)
		+	::If they were trying to idiot-trap, they came to the wrong site. I enjoy idiot-traps though, simply to get a nice laugh out of them. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 13:41, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

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	==Sad but Wild==		==Sad but Wild==
	This comic page has had nothing but vandalism and reverts of the vandalism for THREE YEARS STRAIGHT. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 22:57, 17 September 2025 (UTC)		This comic page has had nothing but vandalism and reverts of the vandalism for THREE YEARS STRAIGHT. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 22:57, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
		+	:It's because there are spam-houses out there that will look for inline links to pages that are variations upon <code><site address>/Feedback</code>, which tend to be used to contact site-owners, and either automate or direct their human <s>wage-slaves</s>workers to add their latest spam-payload to it.
		+	:I've seen other sites suffer from this, and have to deal with it. Out of the ~1 billion websites there may be, it'd be trivial to have a list of thousands(/millions?) of spammable targets and just broadcast the ''spam du jour'' around and benefit from the very few attempts that actually successfully hook somebody.
		+	:It's not even the only page on this site that suffers this, though it may be the most obvious at the moment. Some of them were (semi-)protected, during a past spate of (clearly anthropic) spamming, but this just seemed to shift that effort towards yet other pages. Or, in at least one case, the Talk: page for the protected one.
		+	:The BOT tends to catch many of these, and no sign that anybody/anything cares that their spam has been ''immediately'' reverted, but the most recent one here was just ''so'' badly written (perhaps as an 'idiot-trap' - a phishing attempt performed so badly that anyone who actually falls for it is going to need no effort at all to get to the point of being ripped off) that it didn't even trigger that response.
		+	:The most likely way to stop this entirely is to actively delete the pages ([[Feedback]], [[1457: Feedback]], perhaps [[1457]], probably the respective Talk: page(s)) long enough for every ''spamhaus'' to get a "Page not found" response and ''perhaps'' then delete their chosen target page link from their huge list of tryable pages. But that's assuming they do, and if any given list is only retried from the beginning every three months (and ''immediately'' deletes the item from it, rather than give it a "three strikes, then out" treatment) then you'd need to keep it 'dark' for at least that long. And old lists might be used again at any time by any new ''haus'', plus future site-scraping (from scratch) would always pick up the revived page again (maybe share it around, too) and you're potentially back to where you started.
		+	:It is 'wild' that happens and, of the estimated 800 million of so 'inactive and unmaintained' sites, there will be so many places with 'open' Feedback/etc pages where such spam builds up (perhaps even publicly). But, like here, other places will have enough responsiveness to have a 'Feedback' page yet generally confine all such probings to history (or, at least, the History pages - which are a mixed blessing, in this case).
		+	:If you're considering it sad that nobody ''else'' has bothered to edit anything (only spammers and spam-reverters), that might just be that nothing more needs to be changed. Like many other pages might be ok, for long periods of time until ''someone'' has a good and legitimate idea for a tweak. From my decades of web (and other internet-related) experience, however, I'm not going to let myself feel emotionally affected by this level of spammer chancerism. (Well, mostly. I had to chuckle a bit at the awfulness of the recently reverted 'feedback' message. If it wasn't an idiot-trap, it was quite the most awful spamming I've seen recently, except for the frw ones that don't even remember to leave 'contact details'!) [[Special:Contributions/82.132.244.90\|82.132.244.90]] 06:00, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

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−	This comic page has had nothing but vandalism and reverts of the vandalism for THREE YEARS STRAIGHT.	+	This comic page has had nothing but vandalism and reverts of the vandalism for THREE YEARS STRAIGHT. --'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 22:57, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

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	::Not sure what Tori would have to do with it, either. I think it was before she joined, as well, but I could be wrong about that. But no still particular reason why they'd be the person to ask. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.164\|172.68.205.164]] 18:19, 20 April 2025 (UTC)		::Not sure what Tori would have to do with it, either. I think it was before she joined, as well, but I could be wrong about that. But no still particular reason why they'd be the person to ask. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.164\|172.68.205.164]] 18:19, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
	:::Um-a couple things first. 1) I joined on February 1st, 2024, so this wouldn’t be for me to answer. 2) I don’t represent explain xkcd policy-that would probably be a question to ask the whole community, or at the very least admins/Jeff. 3) This whole thing sounds to me like a scam/troll, so I agree that it wasn’t written at face-value. '''[[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:pink">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#B1E4E3">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 00:41, 21 April 2025 (UTC)		:::Um-a couple things first. 1) I joined on February 1st, 2024, so this wouldn’t be for me to answer. 2) I don’t represent explain xkcd policy-that would probably be a question to ask the whole community, or at the very least admins/Jeff. 3) This whole thing sounds to me like a scam/troll, so I agree that it wasn’t written at face-value. '''[[User:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:9pt;color:pink">42.book.addict</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:42.book.addict\|<span style="font-family:Cormorant Garamond;font-size:6pt;color:#B1E4E3">Talk to me!</span>]]</sup>''' 00:41, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
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		+	This comic page has had nothing but vandalism and reverts of the vandalism for THREE YEARS STRAIGHT.

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 : Oh, it might as well be an obscure Psych reference. Please stop looking for extraobscure references.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.34|108.162.254.34]] 17:57, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
-::I agree, in the context I really don't see how the Wi-Fi pineapple has any relevance. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 18:52, 8 December 2014
+::I agree, in the context I really don't see how the Wi-Fi pineapple has any relevance. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 18:52, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 ::: Cueball could be acting on being told that he could access an unknown Wifi using a pineapple. [[User:JamesCurran|JamesCurran]] ([[User talk:JamesCurran|talk]]) 16:45, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
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 ::Pity I didn't see that one when it came in. It was written five years ago, and no sign that it was actually written at face-value anyway. (Even if we ''have'' a Contact Form, which I seem to have missed, I'm fairly certain that it isn't being monitored in any meaningful way.)
 ::Not sure what Tori would have to do with it, either. I think it was before she joined, as well, but I could be wrong about that. But no still particular reason why they'd be the person to ask. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.164|172.68.205.164]] 18:19, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

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 I know you're probably busy, so just a simple yes or no would suffice.
-Many Thanks,
+Many Thanks, {{unsigned ip|172.69.62.226|19:21, 25 February 2020}}
 :Uh you'll have to ask Tori I think [[User:CalibansCreations|'''<span style="color:#ff0000;">Caliban</span>''']] ([[User talk:CalibansCreations|talk]]) 12:39, 20 April 2025 (UTC)