On Feb 4, 2008 9:59 AM, Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez@gmail.com wrote:
Well, once the spambot has detected, it only takes a bot to blok it everywhere so the hard part is detecting them, andI don't think we should be doing right trusting a bot to detect vandalism and issue blocks everywhere
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WMF hosts over 700 wikis. Do you really think it is easy to setup and maintain a admin-flagged bot account on all of them?
I agree that there are two issues here, deciding what to block globally, and actually carrying it out. Lets not reject something that solves the latter because we don't have a complete solution for the former.