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Major abuse filter mistakes

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So far all by other people:

  1. Creating a rule that effectively prevented any page larger than ~100kB from being saved for 45 minutes.
  2. Creating a rule so complex it added several seconds to every attempt to save an article
  3. Blocking nearly all new account creation for 20 minutes.
  4. Creating a rule that A) matched against all edits, and B) removed autoconfirmed from the editor.
  5. Creating a rule so complex it shut down the rest of the AbuseFilter for several hours.
  6. Creating a rule that disallowed new users from creating any redirects for 7 minutes.
  7. Creating a rule that disabled all editing for 1 minute.