#5822 - Perhaps spam detection should not ban web crawlers
| Identifier | #5822 |
|---|---|
| Issue type | Feature request or suggestion |
| Title | Perhaps spam detection should not ban web crawlers |
| Status | Open |
| Handling member | Deleted |
| Addon | core |
| Description | Some web crawlers get banned by the antispam if they match enough criteria to cause their score to reach the ban limit. But when this happens, health check fails saying accidentally banned a web crawler. Perhaps web crawlers should be exempt from automatic bans based on perceived spam (but they should not be excluded from manual bans or hack attack bans). |
| Steps to reproduce | |
| Funded? | No |
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TBH the importance of search engines are declining. Personally I rarely Google stuff nowadays because I either use ChatGPT, or some kind of walled garden (e.g. Reddit). That's sad, but it does lower the criticality of this kind of thing, especially if the crawlers are faulty in some way.