Forum:Abusefilter

Abusefilter is an extension enabled on request at Wikia which heavily helps prevent vandalism and spam and logs who/what/when/where/why it throttled a user. Essentially, administrators can create "filters" which basically are rules of what should flag it, and what it should do. Here is an example of a filter: from Wook, it would disallow a new user (whose account is less than 4 days old) from blanking/removing most content from a mainspace article (unless they are redirecting the page). I think having this extension added would definitely help with the constant vandalism here and keep the wiki a lot cleaner.

See http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter for more filters as examples.

-- 00:28, March 11, 2010 (UTC)

Support -- as nominator. 00:28, March 11, 2010 (UTC)

Support/Comment It sounds like a good idea; I assume that in addition to giving the little auto-alert, it prevents the attempted action as well? This would be excellent for IPs; just make it impossible for them to blank pages to begin with, or completely block words like dick/cock/etc. in the mainspace. *APPENDED* Disregard my last. This looks to be an excellent tool. Ha, sweet jackass-autoblocking goodness. --  Griever0311   00:52, March 11, 2010 (UTC)

Support - It seems almost too good to be true.. <_< Icepac K s 01:08, March 11, 2010 (UTC)

Support Great idea. this would really help --Lt. Col. Gen.Cain T C   E 01:26, March 11, 2010 (UTC)

Support - Should help out a lot. 01:43, March 11, 2010 (UTC)

Support - There is lots of vandalism going on and that should help. Lt.  Dunn   01:44, March 11, 2010 (UTC)

Support/question - Doubly so after seeing a what a recent newly registered user uploaded. Is it possible to make it so that newly registered users can't upload images for 1-2 weeks or something? Disregard that question, I just now noticed my answer on the SW wiki page.--WouldYouKindly 02:53, March 11, 2010 (UTC)

Support/question - In the last few hours, there has been more Vandalism than I ever saw! EVERY SECOND I see a Vandal! Btw, if I am not an admin, can I add a Vandalism Template to a user? If so, how? W567123daniel 02:58, March 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * @Daniel, Answer - That might be a better question for an admin's talk page, but yes, regular users can use the vandalism template (I used to do it all the time before I became an admin), simply type on their talk page, and that'll put the vandalism warning template on their talk page. If they keep it up, just contact one of us on our talk pages as per usual.--WouldYouKindly 03:01, March 11, 2010 (UTC)

Support Constantly attacks to this Wikia, it would be a great help! Clavix2  Talk!!! Do!!! Count ¬¬ !!! 03:10, March 11, 2010 (UTC)

Support - now all the sysops will just be lying around waiting for some action. --   T    C    E      '''EightOhEight   T    C     E    06:57, March 11, 2010 (UTC)