Forum:Annule blocking ip address: Difference between revisions

https://right.orain.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=Cyberpower678 – Cyberpower678, you don't know how to combat spam. You shoot shoot first and ask questions later. This "guilty until proven innocent" method of combating spam should be done away with. --[[User:Michaeldsuarez|Michaeldsuarez]] ([[User talk:Michaeldsuarez|talk]]) 13:18, 23 February 2015 (GMT)

:Alright, let's not be rude to each other here. While I do not have the authority to officially speak for Orain and put an end to this (anymore), I am going to offer my thoughts. This filter that you are complaining about is necessary. Without it, we have had hundreds, if not thousands, of spam pages created by IPs. This clogs up the RecentChanges, makes sysops do extra work to delete the spam pages, and causes Orain to look as if it is not well-maintained. To be honest, I don't see this filter ([[Special:AbuseFilter/5|Filter 5]]) being deleted in the near future, especially since it has stopped over 6000 spam edits. It literally only stops you from including an external link in your first edit. To be honest, I see this being a problem for a very small number of constructive editors. I think adding a warning when the filter is triggered would be useful, just letting the user know their edit is blocked because it contains a link to an external site within their first edit. Most spambots (if not all of them) would never even process the warning and make sense out of it and know how to evade the filter. The warning would only help constructive members of the community. Maybe this is something we need to take look at. Long story short, the filter probably isn't going anywhere. The good that it does way outweighs the very few small inconveniences it causes. -- <font color="blue"><b>[[User:Joe G|Joe&nbsp;G.]]</b></font> ([[User_talk:Joe G|Talk]]) 16:07, 23 February 2015 (GMT)