Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-5079138-20170201094458

If you don't know, we have a feature called Special:AbuseFilter, which is basically a filter admins and above can change in order to restrict certain actions (e.g. blocks usernames that are known to be abused so that they can't touch the mainspace, and restricts users from making pages that contains one of the blacklisted words in the filter)

The problem is, this is turned on all the time, and we never actually disabled it, and this causes some false positives that actually blocked innocent users, such as (due to his username containing "fart", referring to the "fart" spammers that came here last year).

I feel like this has to be disabled when unneeded, because this might be a serious issue when people try to edit some pages, only to find out they're suddenly blocked.

 