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Ability to filter exclude from abuselog listing
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At this time for Abuselog the filter methodology at Special:AbuseLog is Filter IDs (separate with pipes): it would be useful to be able to exclude certain filters from the abuselog results.

  • case example: Recent spambots creations have required creation of a filter to stop account creation, and high occurrence of success and rate means that it is difficult to identify normal filter results during this period.

At this time the filter IDs are separated with a pipe, and I was hoping that the use of an alternate character to the pipe could be used to designate those to exclude. Alternate is to create a separate field and the exclusions would be built there

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Daimona moved this task from Backlog to Ideas for overhaul on the User-Daimona board.
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Random idea: a lame "!" character before the filter ID

Daimona added a subscriber: matej_suchanek.

Alternative proposed by @matej_suchanek: a checkbox to invert the search (and an API param for that). Either way this should be quite simple to implement.