Author: MacGyverMagic
Description:
There have been several edits that triggered multiple AbuseFilters. This is particularly annoying for the people checking on them since unless you're looking for it, there's no indication why an edit isn't showing up in the editor's contribution log unless you figured out another filter was triggered that stopped the edit from going through.
Case in point:
- Filter 3 catches massive page blanking by new users.
- Filter 43 catches removal of reference tags by new users.
When a massive blanking is done, both filters trigger, but there are instances when the blanking is not large enough to trigger filter 3. So both filters are needed.
It would be very helpful if we were able to ignore a certain filter if another one was already triggered.
This is easy to achieve if you simply base it on the filter number, but I think the servers could be saved from more strain by ordering the filters in a particular decision tree order that avoids anything already checked for earlier in the tree from being executed.
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