Topic on Project:Village Pump

Originally reported by @Mattflaschen-WMF on Project:Support desk:

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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

I'm for not making a filter block unless there's very very low chance to catch a legitimate user. If someone is trying to bypass it (which shouldn't be very difficult since it's not private) we should improve it by learning how they're bypassing it. Adding exceptions should be generally avoided, though, specially on a public filter.

I changed it to Disallow. Ping me if there are any issues.