https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32959
--- Comment #6 from Tisza Gergő <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #5) > How would the vandal know that that specific filter was for xyr if they can > only see the filter #? From the timing, especially on smaller wikis. If you are vandalizing, your edits are refused, you change your pattern, you get through, but after a few edits you are refused again, and the same time an RC entry appears about abuse filter changes, that is kind of obvious. > And wouldn't a vandal know they are being tracked as > soon as they see that their edits are being blocked by the filter? Sure, but the filter messages in themselves do not give you much information about what is going on (not enough to abuse it, anyway). Pointing them to the AbuseFilter page, which further points them to the documentation, with details of how exactly the tool works, is unhelpful. > I'm not seeing how hiding this information in once place but not in another > is advantageous, and will prevent exploitation of the filters. Ideally it should be hidden everywhere (given that the log does not say anything useful, and all the links do not work if you have no privileges, there is no point to showing them anyway - it is bad UX design to put links before the user and only notify him after he clicks that he is not allowed to use them), but hiding it on the page which abusers are reading is more important than hiding it on pages they are not reading. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
