Abuse Filter
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The Abuse Filter is a newly-enabled TOW extension. In theory, Abuse Filter is able to ban disruptive users and obvious trolls. For technical reasons, the Abuse Filter is an absolute piece of shit that generates at least 100 false positives a day.
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Designed to handle
- Grawp
- Willy on Wheels impersonators
- Potty-mouthed 13 year old boys
- Abusive ASCII such as Goatse
- Anything funny from the superior wiki
- Four abuse filters #7, #215, #228, and #230 exist just to stop the nonstop spam from AnonTalk.
Widespread acclaim
Some argue that the filter is the best thing that ever happened to Wikipedia. Most notably, Jeremy Hanson has given up on simple page moves, like Pixar becoming a tax firm, much too far from his roots. Jarlaxle/Grawp now endlessly harasses his enemies instead. If there is anything to blame for a growing pest like Jeremy, it would be the Abuse Filter.
Like most other defensive mechanisms on TOW, it will inevitably be non-notable in two months time. The realm of fake editing and counter-vandalism is rushed at a ridiculous pace. Many editors become irate when they do not have the impression of pwning or slowing down "x chronic troll", so the Abuse filter and its ancestors merely prove to be a simple filibuster to a cancerous tumor of angst and butthurt.
AntiAbuseBot
The precursor to the Abuse Filter, AntiAbuseBot (moar liek AbuseBot, amirite?) is run by some faggot called Chris G. More or less it is a complete rip-off of MysteryBot. The main difference between the two lies in the fact while MysteryBot reverts legit vandalism, AntiAbuseBot removes Goatse ASCII, mudkipz, and all the stuff cool people actually care about, because noone gives a shit about 99% of Wikipedia's articles. In addition, AAB consistently B& users without the possibility of appealing on their talk page. Needless to say, an autistic sysop will jump in and endorse the block because all sysops hate ED.
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