Yes, some global & human review seems necessary.

Maybe a higher threshold would make sense. E.g. if a user gets blocked on
two or three lists, then a global block is triggered.

На сб, 8.05.2021 г. в 14:20 ч. Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> написа:

> (This could also be an attack vector, though.
>
> Imagine a local conflict resulting in list admin A marking person B's
> posts as spam on that local list, effectively silencing person B across all
> Wikimedia lists.
>
> Without mitigation against that [e.g. a global review queue of marked spam
> before it becomes a global block], I would be wary of such a feature.)
>
>   A.
>
> On Sat, 8 May 2021, 02:05 Kunal Mehta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 5/7/21 3:04 PM, effe iets anders wrote:
>> > With the new mailman, I'm really excited to see global bans. Is there
>> > already some workflow we're supposed to follow to mark spam? It would
>> be
>> > great if listadmins could mark stuff as spam and that would then
>> trigger
>> > global bans somehow if it happened multiple times. I know I can file a
>> > ticket, but want to make sure we first arrive on a desirable solution
>> > before we throw it into the dev's lap(s) :)
>>
>> Yeah, that would be really nice. In the past this has been proposed as
>> "Allow list admins to train spam filters"[1] after GNOME patched their
>> Mailman to do so.
>>
>> Upstream mailman3 has a bug for this as well[2], where they suggest that
>> a plugin could be written for this. If someone writes said plugin and it
>> works, we can definitely deploy/enable it.
>>
>> In the meantime I would suggest if you notice a new spam problem, post
>> here, see if other list admins also say they're having similar problems,
>> and then we sysadmins can take action.
>>
>> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244241
>> [2] https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/issues/88
>>
>> -- Kunal
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