User:Blade bane/Investigation

To help with the spammers constantly attacking several IRC channels, one of which is halopedia's, I am going to start keeping a record of the spamming events, members involved, and times of joining/leaving. I will work in conjunction with the IRC of wookipedia, which also is spammed regularly.

=December 23rd, 2009=
 * Believed to be a single person, nicks used are Not__moot, and JethroBodine at Halopedia. Wookiepedia gets JethroBodine, ThePoPo (registered as Demetra_R_Weaver), JerryMaGuire, and Not__moot in that order.


 * Wookipedia is attacked at 21:07.


 * Halopedia is attacked at 2130 Central Standard Time.


 * Wookipedia ops take about 10 seconds to recognize the spammer, and ban them repeatedly before links can be posted. Channel mode set to +m and spammer is ignored. After about 2 hours of being able to do nothing, spammer leaves.


 * One spammer had joined previously, and had been lurking in chat room. When bans were put into place, proxies were used. After two bans, no returns. Reports of earlier spamming taking place, but I am currently unable to verify.