** switched on for a while, then deactivated and never activated again?: 81 (bad charts)
** switched on for a while, then deactivated and never activated again?: 81 (bad charts), 167 (two brief disables underway), 302 (switched off on the grounds of insufficient activity)
** switched on for a short while and then powered down: mostly stuff merged to other filters; or for which the community decides filter is not an appropriate solution (308); or decides to not implement the thing (that way); 290 (disabled, since relevant pages were protected)
** or switched off after a short while because there were no hits: 304
** or switched off after a longer while, because it was not tripped frequently, in order to save conditions from the condition limit
** switched on and still on: 11 (verify), 79 (with brief periods of being disabled for couple of minutes/hours, probably in order to update the pattern)
** switched on for a while, deactivated for a while, activated again?: 61, 98 (was deactivated briefly since an editor found the "warn" action unfounded; re-enabled to tag)
** switched on and stayed on, with the exception of brief periods of time when the filter was deactivated (and the activated again), probably in order to update the conditions: 79, 135 (there were couple of others in Shirik's list, go back and look)
** switched on for a while, deactivated for a while, activated again?: 61, 98 (was deactivated briefly since an editor found the "warn" action unfounded; re-enabled to tag), 148 ("20160213 - disabled - possible technical issue - see edit filter noticeboard - xaosflux")
** switched on and stayed on, with the exception of brief periods of time when the filter was deactivated (and the activated again), probably in order to update the conditions: 79, 135 (there were couple of others in Shirik's list, go back and look);
** irregular?
* What do filters target: general behaviour vs edits by single users
** there are quite some filters targeting particular users
** there are quite some filters targeting particular users: 290 (targets an IP range)
** there are also some targetting particular pages (verify!), although this clashed with the guidelines
** and there are some filtering in general
** there are also filters such as 199 (Unflagged bots) which were implemented in order to track something which was not quite malicious or abusive and were thus deemed inappropriate use of filters by the community and consequently (quite swiftly) deleted
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* How are filter actions set
** there's this pattern that all actions but logging (which cannot be switched off) are took out, when edit filter managers are updating the regex of the filter
** there's a tendency of editors to hide filters just for the heck of it (at least there are never clear reasons given), whichc is then reverted by other editors with the comment that it is not needed
** there's a tendency of editors to hide filters just for the heck of it (at least there are never clear reasons given), whichc is then reverted by other editors with the comment that it is not needed: 148, 225 (consesus that general vandalism filters should be public [Special:Permalink/784131724#Privacy of general vandalism filters), 260 (similar to 225), 285 (same)
** oftentimes, when a hidden filter is marked as "deleted" it is made public
