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Null edits should not trigger abuse filters
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Author: matthew.britton

Description:
Null edits should not trigger abuse filters. No change is made to the page and the action is not logged; the effect is essentially the same as purging the page. So there is no reason to run filters on it.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Reference
bz19267

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:41 PM
bzimport added a project: AbuseFilter.
bzimport set Reference to bz19267.

alexsm333 wrote:

I also noticed that both null edits and stopped (by filter) edits can be counted towards rate limits on other filters. That was a month or two ago.

happy.melon.wiki wrote:

blocked edits should still contribute to the throttle count. Null edits, I agree, should not.