[Foundation-l] Flagged bots to edit pages containing spam links

Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com
Mon May 5 23:20:42 UTC 2008


On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:19 PM, White Cat
<wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
>  A suggestion was that to make the spam autoblocker only black the edit if a
>  new spam link is being introduced and spam already on the pages do not get
>  affected. This comes at the expense of performance though.

No it doesn't, it would just require an extra regex search (on the old
text) and some trivial array processing.  Not a substantial
difference.  If you're talking about getting a feature added, anyway,
I think you're on the wrong list.



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