Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-961279-20181117154519

I've looked at the abuse filter on a few occasions and see that it's based on specifying patterns using regex, I think. I've never worked with those before, so when I tried to add a specific phrase, it started blocking all users. This actually worked better than intended because it got the vandal to go away since they couldn't do anything before being blocked. I removed the change later so everyone could resume editing there.

I need to do the same thing on another wiki but can't have it running amok with false positives. What's the process for setting the abuse filter to trigger when the user name has a specific phrase in it? For example, if the person kept creating user names that have "noisybee" in them like "noisybeebuzz", "noisybeefly" and "flynoisybee". Having it not be case sensitive would help. 