I hate being bothered. I have enough bother in my life, that someone going out of their way to bother me — or, worse, bothering me in a completely negligent and in-passing fashion — is seriously irksome.
I have a wiki, and I have some wiki pages from my late, lamented spy RPG. I do not want to take them down, and refuse to do so in other than my own good time.
Wikis are easily editable, so occasionally some spammer will get a wiki page and throw crap up there. No problem. They are trivially easy to revert to previous form and to write protect. I should write-protect the whole site, but that’s another story …
So usually it’s a one-off kind of thing.
Not with Doron.
Doron put bad stuff on my wiki.
I took it off.
Doron kept trying.
Doron kept doing it as what was clearly some sort of bot which had been set up. Nothing personal to him/her. Very personal to me.
Even after the page was blocked from edit, Doron kept trying.
And the really irksome parts were (a) it was obviously automated, so Doron had no personal stake in the effort, and (b) even though the page was edit-protected, the wiki software would still register the (unsuccessful) attempt to write to the page. Which means that if I want to keep track of any edits to my wiki (yes) I need ot keep seeing mostly Doron’s failed attempts. Two or three or four notifications a day.
Rrg.
So I finally went to the trouble of investigating the IP address used, combing through the access logs.
Aha. And it’s consistent.
Blocked.
Aaaaand … within a few hours, same (futile) attempt, but from another address. And neither address resolves to the ISP, so there’s a good chance it’s being spoofed, too.
Irksome. Highly irksome.