Talk:Moderator Tools/Automoderator/Multilingual testing

Missing opportunity?

Hi and thank you for trying this. One of the editors in a discussion I was involved in, mentioned that this tool would cause the human moderators to miss opportunities to catch bad edits done by the same editor. Meaning, nowadays we spot a really bad edit, we check other edits by the same editor and apply a higher level of suspicious, as we already spotted the bad one, sometimes causing us to revert edits based on that editor history. The automoderator will blind us to it as we will never see those really bad edits, so edits that are harder to classify would be missed just because the automoderator had already taken care of the obvious. Do you have a solution? Thanks. Pixie.ca (talk) 17:44, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

@Pixie.ca This is a good point and definitely something for us to think about. There are a few features that might help with this:

• Automoderator can be configured to use the 'minor' or 'bot' flags, or not. This means you could choose not to use these flags, making Automoderator's reverts more visible to the community, for example in RecentChanges.
• Because Automoderator shows up as a normal account, its contributions can be tracked directly to investigate users it is reverting, in the same way as you could do for other patrollers. Edits are reverted in the same way as if done by a normal user, so they're not any more hidden or removed from view than normal. Contrasting this with AbuseFilter, Automoderator's reverts are more visible, as AbuseFilter's edit blocks are only stored in a separate log. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 12:40, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the answer. Pixie.ca (talk) 14:39, 23 October 2024 (UTC)