Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Tech Wishlist And Bug Reports/Slow speed and gateway timeouts/reply (4)

Some time ago Uncyclopedia had the "AF17" incident, where someone installed ABUSE filter 17 that attempts to convince every user who adds an external link, even established users, to reconsider the link. Before saving, the user has to click through this warning implying that external links are cause for a harsher review of a user's recent contributions. This is somehow related to a fork called Colombian English Uncyclopedia. Apparently filter 17 was installed pursuant to some provision in Wikia's TOS against using Wikia server resources to draw users away from Wikia. But I'm not sure exactly what policy on what page led to the AF17 incident.

The only concrete thing I could find is that a site-wide notice might be considered "spam" under the Community Guidelines.