Help:Spam

Frequency
Wikicities is now a popular, frequently-spidered site and therefore a target of spammers because of ease of access. If they can get their URLs on a Wikicity page for a few hours, their "ratings" go up because search engines find them.

Dealing with spam
Most of our responsible contributors look at the list of Recent Changes. Spam is removed when seen. And, as noted in a recent list message from User:Angela, it should then be reported at [].

Administrators have a "Rollback" power that makes reversal very quick and efficient. Other contributors can reverse by simple deletion of added material or (if the spammer replaced good material) by going through the page history back to the last good version and resaving it.

Sometimes our vigilance is not perfect and a page has been hit twice, so it pays to check that the version you are restoring is an uninfected one.