From d14e3a2ebe8078f8b9301de454bc3aee3d7558a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lyudmila Vaseva <vaseva@mi.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 09:33:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add note on filter actions

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 article/proceedings.tex | 4 ++++
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@@ -460,6 +460,10 @@ The groupings are which sets of people should have aggregate (shared) throttles.
     2.9 Tagging: The edit or change can be 'tagged' with a particular tag, which will be shown on Recent Changes, contributions, logs, new pages, history, and everywhere else. These tags are styleable, so you can have items with a certain tag appear in a different colour or similar.
 
 
+Note: Frequently, what action a particular filter triggers changes over time.
+Usually, all filters start as "log only", and when deemed that they do what they are intended to do, additional actions are added.
+Sometimes, when a wave of particularly persistent vandalism arises, a filter is temporarily set to "warn" or "disallow" and the actions are removed again as soon as the filter is no tripped very frequently anymore.
+
 \subsection{what happens afterwards}
 
 If a user disagrees with the filter decision, they have the posibility of reporting a false positive
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