Author: dy_yol
Description:
This is a suggestion to add a scoring system to the Abusefilter. Some filters would have scores, and when a user's edit exceed a certain threshold, say 20, the edit is blocked. For ex. say a shouting filter score is 10 and obscenity filter score is 8, and a removal of categories filter score is 5; when a user's edit trip these 3 filters, the total score would be 23, i.e. more than 20, so the edit get blocked.
See Also:
T20067: Decision tree for AbuseFilters
This seems similar to the approach used by the following anti-vandalism bot:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Salebot
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Salebot
I know this is a really really old task, but by now there's a partial solution to this. You can define multiple variables using ternary operator like this:
obscenity := added_lines irlike obscene_stuff ? 8 : 0; ... foo := summary irlike bar ? 10 : 0;
and so on, and at the end of the filter do:
obscenity +... + foo >= 20
This isn't hard to do and doesn't need a patch (which would probably take several lines of code) to be implemented.
I assume the idea here was to have a reputation score that is carried over to subsequent edits (so after a number of questionable edits it gets too low and you get barred from editing more for a while). I think that would be very useful; not sure if AbuseFilter is the right place for it (I'd want such a feature to interact with all kinds of things - captchas, ORES, the patrolling interface and so on.)