Requests for Comment/Changes to CVT group

This proposal is intended to add additional rights to the CVT group so that they may better deal with global threats.

Proposal 1
The rights  and   are added to the CVT group. This can either be assigned to a local group on meta, or to the global group, however the creation of a local group would be best suited.

The reason I'm making this request is due to the fact that recently, I have followed two vandalism only accounts across over a dozen wikis each, where I blocked and reverted the mess that they were creating. In each case, my ability to respond was really limited to whenever a steward became available. Having these rights would have much sooner prevented further abuse.

These two rights are rather powerful. As such, they should only be used in cases where the user is: Further applications of use may be decided in this RfC.
 * Policy wise
 * 1) Clearly a spambot/vandalism-only-account of some sort
 * 2) Clearly a sockpuppet with intentions of disrupting multiple wikis
 * 3) Has currently disrupted more than one or two wikis

Support

 * As creator. -- Void  Whispers 01:02, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Proposal 1.5
Sorta just hit me, but I also realized that the ability to edit global filters  would also be an improvement, as some of the abuse is quite systematic and easily prevented by simple abuse filter rules. Other possible uses include maintaining the spam filters, which don't stop everything. While it may be fine to put this through stewards, it still does slow down the response time, and requests may go unanswered for some time. Also, it is kinda pointless for CVT to be able to edit filters on all public wikis when the spam/vandalism we are dealing with can occur on many different wikis.

Global filters should only be managed by CVT in cases where: Further applications of use may be decided in this RfC.
 * Policy wise
 * 1) The condition would match a large amount of spam/vandalism recently encountered by the CVT member.
 * 2) The CVT member is responding to a large number of false positive results on the filter.

Support

 * As proposer. -- Void  Whispers 01:02, 1 May 2017 (UTC)