On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Ken Snider <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was actually bit by the abuse filter directly, as I was setting up a new
> page on Meta, using a newly created account:
>
> 1. Because the page included an external link, I needed to enter a CAPTCHA.
> 2. The AF then threw a warning that my changes appeared harmful, citing "
> new user youtube, &amp;c"
> 3. I was then thrown back to the CAPTCHA, repeat endlessly. :) There was
> no way forward.
>

That in particular is a long-standing issue (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20661). I've been meaning to
fix it when I get a spare moment.

The other warnings about blanking sound suspicious. I think we fixed a bug
a few weeks back where blanking a section was triggering the blanking rule.
I think that's been deployed.


>
> Thanks.
>
> --Ken.
>
>
> On Aug 19, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Most of the popular decline errors seem to be related to removal of
> >> large chunks of text, this sounds suspicious...
> >>
> >
> > Bug 52077, possibly?
> >
> >
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