Comic for Monday, October 4th, 2021
As some of you already guessed, Mium is still at the Enkari tower as he was dropping Eliana off from their previous adventure, while Ila split off to go seek Arkady help with the very important matters of scarves.
What is going on with Mium being Eliana’s “cousin” is one of those things that will probably be explained in due time. Enkari is the family name of Regin and Eliana.
Speaking of which… the wiki should be working again. It should also be open to freely edited again. We’ll see how long that lasts, but if you’ve been been chomping at the bit to edit it, here’s your chance before the spam bots get it. I’ll keep an eye on it – if it starts getting flooded with spam again, of course I’ll have to lock it back down. Hopefully they’ve gotten a life and moved on, but we’ll see.
The fix for it is… not great. I’m not going to mention what the fix was for security reasons, but I don’t think it’ll be a problem – I’ll be keeping an eye on it. If you see anything shady with it, just let me know.
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Panel 1: Uh, Mr. Efaite? -> Efiate
As for Tyler being stranded in the palace beyond we do know that peters gate detector classes gates by size at least, if it also detects the destination then he probably ask Tom to go retrieve him. If not Eliana can ask Tefzarin to redeem himself by fetching him.
The palace beyond implies that the ruling class lived there at one time, meaning that Palandra might have been under extra dimensional occupation at one time. And that Tyler might only have to survive in a demon infested dimension a short time.
I’m still wondering if Elmon will recognize Mium as someone other than a branch kid. And what his reaction would be if he did.
To be fair, Peter did mention that he fixed at least the loophole that let MYM go after Ila. So, it’s likely not quite that easy. On the other hand, MYM’s favorite past time seems to be figuring out how to bypass limits and do things the system was never even designed for. Like running separate instances, or the “It’s experimental and thus not military” hardware. Then again, given that he was at least partly created by Peter this isn’t a surprise.
Heck, the whole Miko AI plot goes back to the teleporter shooting at her. The text explicitly mentioned making a backup. There is a reason MYM in many ways scares Peter, and the Kor soldiers we see.
Pastutopia: “Hopefully they’ve gotten a life and moved on, but we’ll see.”
Narrator: “They had not”.
So I spent the last hour deleting hundreds of spam bots and their spam from the wiki. The wiki is now locked again. This is why we cannot have nice things.
If I accidentally purged your account in the great purge (I tried to avoid names I recognized, but stopped getting too fussy after around 200) just email me and I’ll unban you. It’s back to locked down so I need to create an account for you again.
If you want an account, just reach out and I’ll make you one.
I’ll give some thought to what to do. Essentially the wiki is sort of dead when it’s locked, but spammed to hell when its unlocked. Not sure what a good middle ground is, if one exists. There may be a way to validated accounts (like the comments get hundreds of spam comments a day, but most of them get autofiltered) but not sure if something like that exists for the wiki instance, and haven’t had a ton of time to look into it recently.
Anyway… at least the wiki should work for what was already there, and if you see any spam I missed, just let me know and I’ll purge with more fire.
Ich habe viel Liebe für dich.
I also am surprised it took this long. Keep your chin up, you’re awesome.
I don’t know much about what tools you have to manage things, nor what kind of spam you’re facing, but: is there a way you could put an “auto-ban and auto-revert” based on the kind of edits they’re making?
E.g.: perhaps the spam-bots generally try to send to outgoing sites, so you add a rule, “if you’re attempting an external link to any domain other than pastutopia.com, your edit is automatically rejected and your account is automatically banned.” [Then see the ones that are missed and make a new wall for that, and so on.] Based on what Wikipedia does, regex-blocking seems at least possible.
You could also appoint other (lower-level) admins based on readers you trust to deal with problems – if you get the spam down to a manageable amount with auto-blocks, then democratizing the rest of the process could probably deal with the odd bot that leaks through without as much effort on your part.
Oh yes! The wiki. It’s been a very long while since I’ve tinkered there… but I vaguely remember there were no anti-bot measures… maybe a simple one like Extension:ConfirmEdit?
Also: Extension:StopForumSpam
Some other (simple?) ideas I’ve seen implemented:
*New users CANNOT post/edit anywhere until they have posted something on the “Hello I’m a new user” page.
*New users are limited to one post/edit per day (or more if it’s that bad) until they get approved for more.
Incidentally, you appear to have missed a spammer, if you check the recent changes page. I wouldn’t normally add to your work burden, but I’m concerned that they might be waiting to see if you react before dumping a whole bunch more pages or something like that.
So now the question is can Mium fetch Tyler back? Or did Tyler possibly pull a sneaky and lay some sort of tracer/analyzer on Kafari to let him get himself back?
Tyler did seem very calm after being transported to the Palace Beyond. Tyler’s “chains” may have been a tracer spell to analyze how Elmon moved them to the Palace.
panel 3: though yours are somewhat inferior.
Typo in last panel: Elaina —> Eliana
Love how Mium is always so polite!
Polite, and possibly now a member of the Enkari family?!?
Mium has enough game, but wow! I smell a massive friends and family power shift.
Well, since hair color seems to run in families for designer children and F8 is blue too… the family could just claim they hid a child away on another world. F8 was developed on this world and hooked into MYM.
Ps did we ever get confirmation of what MYM stands for? I’m stll betting on Mind Your Manners.
Um, this is F5, if I’m not mistaken. Last we knew, F8 was on Central. That said, otherwise agreed, and answer’s still probably applicable to F8. After all, they’re twins. That’s why they share the same given name. That’s how twins work, right?
I’ve not seen a definitive answer of MYM’s expansion.
Mium becoming a cousin and thus a representative of of the Enkari family probably happened much like illa’s adoption, Elaina probably called him cousin in the presence of Regin and he didn’t object. This is the first time that Mium has asserted Enkari privileges in public and he is doing it in perfect family style.
Clearly Mium is a protocol droid ,we just need a self-motivated litter bin to go with him and provide comic relief 😀