https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47946
--- Comment #4 from Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #3) > > Certain accounts should to be excluded from generating notifications, such > > as > > Signbot, Hostbot, etc. There are a few different ways we could solve this, > > but one would be an on-wiki configurable blacklist. > > This should be a per-user configurable list. Some people might want to > receive > notifications when a certain bot uses their name. For example, I would like > to > know what pages HostBot uses my name on. Per-user configurable lists dramatically increases the complexity of the use cases that have to be supported. Additionally, implementing it in this fashion makes things very awkward for new users - who presumably start off /without/ a per-user blacklist. > I also think it would be useful for people to know when sinebot signs for > them Can you explain the use case for this? > (unless they've opted out), but the people on who's page sinebot is signing > should not be notified of a new message on their talk page every time sinebot > signs for someone. > I can understand the concern with pages as well for things like SPI and ANI, > but am curious how someone knowing they are being investigated could affect > the > investigation. I mean, either it will be a hint that they need to shape up > and > apologize and if they really do mean well, they will do that. If it is an > SPI > investigation for someone that only means to do harm, then seeing they are > being investigated won't make them do less harm (although it might make them > change IPs causing them to be harder to track). A lot of people who are prominent long-term abusers are, frankly, attention-seeking. Giving them attention is by definition negative for the project. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
