Robert Rohde wrote:
I suspect we could weed out a lot of spammy link
behavior by designing an
external link classifier that used knowledge of what external links are
frequently included and what external links are frequently removed to
generate automatic good / suspect / bad ratings for new external links (or
domains). Good links (e.g. NYTimes, CNN) might be automatically allowed
for all users, suspect links (e.g. unknown or rarely used domains) might
be automatically allowed for established users and challenged with
captchas or other tools for new users / IPs, and bad links (i.e. those
repeatedly spammed and removed) could be automatically detected and
blocked.
I really like this idea. I filed
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78113
to make sure it doesn't get lost.
MZMcBride