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

White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com
Thu May 8 15:01:43 UTC 2008


Where am I supposed to propose it? Bugzilla is obviously the wrong address.

   - White Cat

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Simetrical
<Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com<Simetrical%2Bwikilist at gmail.com>>
wrote:

> 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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