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False positives with "Ongoing user page spam" filter

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mediawiki.org issues should be in Project:Current issues, not here :) Copied to Topic:Tricwf31xwkhvtu2

Mattflaschen-WMF (talkcontribs)

We should re-evaluate the false positives with Special:AbuseFilter/24 . This blocked an Outreachy intern who was attempting to add a link to her blog about the project.

Perhaps we could only do Disallow, and not Block. I realize that does potentially risk vandals re-trying until they bypass it, but everything's a tradeoff. Or we could tighten up the regex to not match borderline cases that might be legitimate.

As is, it seems we risk false positive blocks discouraging newcomers.

@Mooeypoo @Nemo bis @Jasper Deng