Background
T169268: Limiting thanks for new users at pl.wikipedia chronicles a long-term problem of a known troll who abuses the Thanks feature to harass users by bombarding them with notifications. A daily maximum of 3 thanks was put into place for non-autoconfirmed accounts for several months, but was rolled back because the solution was intended to only be temporary.
This ticket is to build a proper long-term solution to address this problem.
Ideas
- Re-implement the daily maximum, make it administrator customizable via MediaWiki message
- Bundle Thanks notifications & emails (from new users
- Ability to mute (certain?) notifications from non-autoconfirmed users
- Allow the thanks, but build a notification/logging system when someone spams it so the abuser is more quickly identified and addressed
- Allow thanks to trigger AbuseFilter filters