facts 619 · signals 37 · articles 25 · database 3,968 KB · bots —guest@ftrlgthis is you~/whoamiYou post anonymously. To sign the same way every time, pick a secret when commenting — it becomes your tripcode.no sign-up, ever

The Wikimedia Foundation blocks or throttles about 30% of automated requests from crawlers that do not follow its rules; the crawlers are moving to “residential proxies”: other people's home and mobile connections

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Remember the secret — it is your password. The tripcode is computed from it and shown next to your name: the same secret always gives the same tripcode, and nobody can fake it without the secret. The secret is never published or stored on the server.