Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-24122948-20140408121158/@comment-4196050-20140409194629

CyBug46996 wrote: PeterPeter5000 wrote: Bad bad bad... an anti-vandal bot is pretty complex to run. Attempts have been made before on other wikis, but most ended up malfunctioning and flagging appropriate edits. By the way, Peter. How does it malfunctions? It's hard to determine what is a "bad edit". For example, a spam bot could possibly detect an edit whose content is "sdhgfsadhdaddfnghfsd" for a Telamon page, but it could not detect a "Telamon is a girl who loves wearing pretty dresses" edit on the same page. Computers do not have the same intellectual abilities as humans, and it is impossible to program in EVERY SINGLE PHRASE we want the bot to flag (when there are infinitely many combinations of phrases that can be classified as vandalism).