Its an abuse filter rule that can be set to block and prevent one of the
most common forms of spam, an accounts first action is creating a user or
user talk page with an external link.
See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
One thing I
have found which works well is an abuse filter rule
http://pastebin.com/X1VKqvp7
How and where would you use that code? And what would it do?
I suppose if read the whole thread I might figure it out.
Fred
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