On the plus side...

[jducoeur]

... what makes the situation a pain in the ass is that the spams are mixed in with a lot of legitimate edits that I want to preserve. The Rolls are old enough (and crappy enough Perl code) that I often discount them as a minor and disused project. It's kind of neat to see how many people are still using them on a day-to-day basis -- that makes it feel like the work of cleaning them up is worthwhile...

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Would it make more sense to put in a captcha, and re-launch ab initio? I haven't looked at my entry in a decade, it's probably aged past value.

Just a thought.

[jducoeur]

It's true that some entries are ancient, and one of these days I'm going to do a kill pass on those. (Indeed, I may have already done so once, IIRC, so your entry may have already been deleted. I know I *meant* to do a kill pass last year, but don't recall offhand if I did so.) But much of the data is relatively recent, so I'm loathe to make everyone re-enter it...

[dragonazure.livejournal.com]

I think I've had an entry in there for nearly as long as they've been in existence. I updated it a little over a year ago. Yes, we consider it worthwhile....

[anna-mickel.livejournal.com]

Definitely worth the effort to rebuild - I reference the Rolls Ethereal occassionally, and have found them to be quite helpful. Wish I could help with the effort, but at least I can offer morale support while you do the cleanup...

Useful

[metageek.livejournal.com]

They're great when you've been assigned a scroll for someone you've never heard of, and you want to get in touch.