https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23087
--- Comment #9 from Gurch <[email protected]> 2010-04-15 22:16:38 UTC --- (In reply to comment #8) > I have no opinion on the German Wikipedia's specific uses of the Abuse Filter. I appreciate that, and I suspect it's the same for the English Wikipedia too. With all due respect, though, as the author/maintainer of this you have to realise that implementing any request that gets thrown your way can result in dubious features that a few influential people (or even just people who know what bugzilla is) asked for but which are not beneficial as a whole. Indeed I'm inclined to consider the abuse filter itself to be such a feature. The concept was pushed into existence by a handful of people -- all of whom just happened to be people the filters would never affect, of course, and mostly people who falsely believe a computer program can make a perfect distinction between abusive and non-abusive actions. > I think that it makes sense to have the capability to filter all types of actions. Again absolutely agree in theory, just as it makes sense to have the *capability* to grant 'block' to anonymous users. However, unlike such features -- that can't be played with by random wiki admins, however powerful they feel -- people *will* (ab)use this if implemented. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
