Whenever I click on the “Mass Delete” option for a spambot, I get told it’s a hidden page.
Anna
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Heya Tia,
To be honest we’ve never really “launched” that feature because we haven’t thoroughly tested it - mostly, because we haven’t really had a need for it. Reuben enabled it at some point to a small number of test accounts when we had a rare spambot attack, and I’ve used it once or twice under his close engineering supervision - there are some features that work differently on wikiHow than on the platforms it was developed for (for example, it can’t/shouldn’t be used for images here), so from a technical perspective, he’s wary of any unexpected complications. We’ve said that we’ll continue testing it when the opportunity arises, to see if it’s something we can open up more widely without any stability or bug concerns – but, we haven’t really had much need to use it, so we haven’t tested much more since then! If you come across any spambots who need that kind of mass deletion (fairly rare, given our deletion policy, but sometimes it happens!), can you pass the examples over so we can keep testing?
