Wow! Am I glad I found this topic! I hadn't posted since 2013 and I was wondering if my 403 errors had something to do with my account. I just couldn't seem to start a new topic, no matter how many times I tried.
Now I just have to remember to always search my posts for
from,
like, and
case and always put
italics brackets around them.
I know the fix for this. It is basically disabling script security for the site. I'm debating on if that is good or no.
Log a bug with whoever designed the script security code?
Perhaps you could disable script security for the time being, report the bug to the forum software, and see how it goes until they have a fix?
...alternatively a hacky solution would be create some code which first intercepts known error creating statements and shoves them into italics. Then leave script security alone.
Sounds
like it might work.
The wiki has been consuming a lot of resources on the host server. This leads them to throttle the entire domain.
Why? Was the wiki getting that much legitimate traffic? Were bots targeting it? Or, perhaps there's other wiki software that's not as resource intensive?
However, these days, spammers and spam-bots very frequently target wikis to insert their advertising junk. I know because I used to participate on the Dwarf Fortress wiki (and others) and some of the moderators there talked about it. I also saw it firsthand, with spam and junk added daily and new accounts created faster than they could delete them. Sometimes, wikis and forums have to disable account creation just to manage.
It's not enough, these days, for a wiki to just have a run-of-the-mill CAPTCHA. You need really good bot filtering, preferably in combo with a Q & A and account verification.
It's sad that the wiki had to be taken down. The biggest obstacle to getting into Aurora is the complexity. And a wiki would sure help with that. I wouldn't have even attempted to get into Dwarf Fortress if they didn't have a wiki.
Perhaps the wiki could be moved to a different location? Perhaps a free wiki host? Or maybe try scrapping the wiki membership and have much more strict bot checks and controls on registration? (Maybe ask prospective members why they want to join? Ask a question about Aurora?)