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Someone turn cluebot off for banned user vandalism removal

Jeffrey Vernon Merkey, a user banned by ARBCOM and Jimbo for off wiki threats to users (among other things), has come back as an extensive IP sock farm using the 69.171.160.* range. I'm trying to clean up his mess and ClueBot is being unhelpful. Revertorium (talk) 16:23, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

You only appear to have been reverted three times. Stopping ClueBot would cause more damage. If you just use your normal autoconfirmed account instead, you will not be reverted by ClueBot. Reach Out to the Truth 17:31, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Nobody with any sense will ever use an identifiable account when editing anything to do with Jeff Merkey. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Revertorium (talk • contribs) 18:38, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

I can't see that you've taken this to WP:SPI. If this user is banned and they're still editing whilst banned, I would suggest that you file a report there so it can be looked at. At the minute I can find no reason to stop ClueBot as it's functioning normally. As Reach Out To The Truth says, stopping ClueBot would be more harmful as it would then leave the whole encyclopedia open to vandalism.--5 albert square (talk) 22:19, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

An idea?

Hi, just a few minutes ago I undid an edit on the AC Cobra page. I then thought an action that Cluebot NG could look for: all-caps. Though in this case "SIT DOWN" would probably be very hard to remove automatically, and may create a great deal more false positives. But I thought I'd put it out there. :) Starfleet Academy "Live long and prosper." 01:26, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Something funny

Sorry if this isn't the page I should put this on, but I think it's kind of funny that it always says "Reverted possible vandalism". I think it should know that "she likes mc donalds" on the Molly Pitcher page is actually vandalism. Toaoftechnology (talk) 02:17, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes, it's about to become a sort of science, called Applied Paranoia. Cluebot NG would have a great job in police, military or security business as being paranoid and thinking everyone is evil is one of the prerequisites you must have to do this job. ;) Just look: Tim Wright (musician) That's simply RIDICULOUS. Just because I didn't like the thought of having the full birth name in photo caption, I put the birth name in the infobox at the line where it belonged and got awarded a kind "Possible BLP vandalism". But as we know, machines are dumb. And as far as I know, bots ARE machines. :P -andy 217.50.63.184 (talk) 16:48, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

The bot is actually rather intelligent as it is based on a ANN rather than simple heuristics, as far as I cant tell on the Tim Wright article CBNG actually reverted vandalism, you where caught by a filter. The bot isn't capable of being paranoid but it is very capable at detecting edits that look like vandalism. - Damian Zaremba ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:58, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

report.cluebot.org not working

Hi… I wanted to report a false positive but the site report.cluebot.org, where I have to put the revert ID is not working. What to do now?

Thanks. --Aghetrichter (talk) 21:18, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

It's report.cluebot.cluenet.org not report.cluebot.org :) - Damian Zaremba ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:42, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Ok, now it works. Somehow it redirected me to "report.cluebot.org" when clicking on "Now, CLICK HERE and put the revert ID in the box when prompted." --Aghetrichter (talk) 01:38, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Clarification re ClueBot NG FAQ: training and threshold-setting subsets, or cross-validation?

Hi. I'm wondering which of the following best describes ClueBot NG's use of the dataset:

• As per the FAQ, the dataset is divided into edits used for training the Bayesian classifiers and neural network and edits used for setting the threshold
• The threshold is determined using cross-validation, then the classifiers and network are trained on the entire dataset

If it's the former, why not do the latter? Thanks for all your good work! 13:47, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Claim of vandalism

Sir, you claimed that my post on the post Windows Vista was vandalism, but yet, it was actually a constructive edit about the minimum requirements. 206.180.101.2 (talk) 14:29, 29 February 2012 (UTC)