Topic on Project:Village Pump

The anti-spam filter here is excessive to the point of being silly

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Summary by MarkAHershberger

Log in and you'll have fewer problems.

197.235.76.58 (talkcontribs)

The spam filter is even triggering for non-links simply by typing "http://" as you'll see in the logs when I attempt to publish this for the first time.

There is anti spam, and there is silly overzealous lazy moderation, this is an obvious case of the latter.

Malyacko (talkcontribs)

If something triggered some filter, please provide clear steps to reproduce and the error message that you received. Thanks.

197.235.76.58 (talkcontribs)

Err, just check my Ip in the logs and you'll find it.


The steps to reproduce are already the part below and above. Simply add any gibberish that includes the text bellow without spaces:


ht tp:// sillyspamfilter

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

You could try logging in instead posting anonymously, There are more blocks for un-logged in users.

197.235.76.58 (talkcontribs)

I had to remove colons from this post (www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:V394zwrigth8ii7c&topic_showPostId=v3rzodjka0txbkft#flow-post-v3rzodjka0txbkft) before it went through.


This anti spam is excessive to the point of blocking links to this site itself. Speechless...