User:Fordsfords

Hi. I'm Steve. Here's what I've been doing lately.

Vandalism
I've been enjoying reverting spam and vandalism. It's fun!

My current technique is:


 * Display "recent changes" (hiding logged-in users, and displaying 500 of them).
 * Wait a few hours for other people to revert most of them.
 * Start at the bottom and select a diff.
 * While (have 5 minutes or so) {
 * If (spam or valdalsim) {
 * revert if not yet reverted
 * display that IP address user's other contribs
 * For each diff for that user, check and revert if appropriate
 * }
 * select next diff up (on list of 500)
 * }

The key is checking the other diffs for the vandal's IP. It feels good when I find a non-reverted vandalism or spam that is weeks or even months old.

I don't use any of the fancy tools I see other people using. I should probably learn more about some of them, choose one, and use it.

Networking
I've also been working on some of the messaging stuff and plan to do more with multicast.