Anti-Spam Obliteration and Prevention

The Anti-Spam Obliteration and Prevention (abbreviated as ASOAP) team is a fictional global usergroup conceived by C.Syde65 as a humorous joke in November 2020, though the concept had been floating around since October or even possibly September. It consists of users who have volunteered to help keep Fandom anti-vandal and anti-spam free. To do this they have been given additional user rights that allow them to detect and delete as well as blocking the users creating it.

Spam Obliteration and Prevention members are their natural enemies, due to their opposing roles. While SOAP members have volunteered to help keep Fandom free of vandalism and spam, ASOAP members have volunteered to help protect vandalism and spam, as well as create more vandalism and spam. ASOAP members are also avid badge farmers and use their daily vandal routines to help them climb the leaderboards of wikis that have Achievements enabled.

Tools
Anti-Spam Obliteration and Prevention members have extended user rights on all Fandom communities, including some administrator tools and access to additional tools that help them react quickly and effectively to find and remove anti-vandalism and anti-spam. It's important to note that they do not necessarily replace or "outrank" local vandals on wikis.

The ASOAP members are only there to help with cleaning cross-wiki anti-spam and reverting anti-vandalism where SOAP members have previously cleaned cross-wiki spam and reverted vandalism. In addition to cleaning cross-wiki anti-spam and reverting anti-vandalism, they may be asked by local vandals to aid them in vandalising pages on local wikis.

List of abilities

 * The following abilities are those included with the anti-spam obliteration and prevention usergroup
 * Allows access to wiki admin tools, via Special:AdminDashboard (admindashboard)
 * Allows classifying multiple templates at once (template-bulk-classification)
 * Block a user from sending email (blockemail)
 * Block other users from editing (block)
 * Bypass IP blocks, autoblocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
 * Can manage global blocks and spam filters (phalanx)
 * Cannot be blocked (unblockable)
 * Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
 * Check users' IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
 * Clear the contents of a user's profile masthead in one click (clearuserprofile)
 * Control memcached behaviour via request parameters (mcachepurge)
 * Create discussion pages (createtalk)
 * Create forums (forums:create)
 * Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
 * Create wiki-wide announcements (announcements)
 * Delete all posts by a specific user (posts:deleteall)
 * Delete and undelete article comments (articlecomments:delete)
 * Delete and undelete posts (posts:delete)
 * Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
 * Delete and undelete threads (threads:delete)
 * Delete forums (forums:delete)
 * Delete many pages on a single wiki, or one page across many wikis (multidelete)
 * Delete pages (delete)
 * Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
 * Disable comments (disablecomments)
 * Edit all system messages (editinterfacetrusted)
 * Edit forums (forums:edit)
 * Edit other users' profile data (editprofilev3)
 * Edit posts by other users (posts:superedit)
 * Edit protected pages (without cascading protection) (editprotected)
 * Edit semi-protected pages (editsemiprotected)
 * Edit sitewide CSS (editsitecss)
 * Edit sitewide JavaScript (editsitejs)
 * Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
 * Edit the user interface (editinterface)
 * Edit threads by other users (threads:superedit)
 * Exempt from Phalanx rules (phalanxexempt)
 * Exempt from sitewide action restrictions (protectsite-exempt)
 * Find pages on many wikis (multiwikifinder)
 * Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
 * Limit actions that can be performed for some groups for a limited time (protectsite)
 * Lock and unlock posts (posts:lock)
 * Lock and unlock threads (threads:lock)
 * Look up user preferences (lookupuser)
 * Mark reverted edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
 * Mass delete pages (nuke)
 * Move files (movefile)
 * Move pages (move)
 * Move threads (threads:move)
 * Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
 * Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
 * Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
 * Not have their username show up in block notices (hideblockername)
 * Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
 * Override the title or username blacklist (tboverride)
 * Overwrite existing files (reupload)
 * Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
 * Quickly revert and delete spam and vandalism (quicktools)
 * Quickly revert the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
 * Undelete a page (undelete)
 * Update the forum display order (forums:displayorder)
 * Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
 * Use moderator tools in Discussions (moderatorTools:use)
 * User is eligible to earn achievement points (Overrides exempt) (achievements-explicit)
 * Validate article comments (articlecomments:validate)
 * Validate posts (posts:validate)
 * View (discussionslog:view)
 * View Special:DiscussionsLog (specialdiscussionslog)
 * View IP actions across all wikis (multilookup)
 * View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
 * View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
 * View hidden article comments (articlecomments:viewhidden)
 * View hidden forums (forums:viewhidden)
 * View hidden posts (posts:viewhidden)
 * View hidden threads (threads:viewhidden)
 * View the Discussions leaderboard (leaderboard:view)
 * View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)
 * View user edits across all of Fandom (lookupcontribs)
 * Add groups to own account: Rollbackers, Bots and Administrators
 * Remove groups from own account: Rollbackers, Bots and Administrators


 * The following abilities are those included with the anti-spam obliteration and prevention usergroup on wikis with the AbuseFilter extension added
 * Create or modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
 * Modify abuse filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted)
 * Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert)
 * View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
 * View private data in the abuse log (abusefilter-private)


 * The following abilities are those included with the anti-spam obliteration and prevention usergroup on wikis with the CurseProfile extension added
 * Moderate user profiles (profile-moderate)
 * Purge comments on user profiles (profile-purgecomments)


 * The following abilities are those included with the anti-spam obliteration and prevention usergroup on wikis with the NewWikis special page added
 * Allows access to Special:NewWikis (newwikislist)


 * The following abilities are those included with the anti-spam obliteration and prevention usergroup on wikis with the Tilesheets extension added
 * Edit tile data for the Tilesheets extension (edittilesheets)
 * Upload new and update existing tilesheets for the Tilesheet extension (importtilesheets)

List of previous abilities

 * The following abilities were previously included with the anti-spam obliteration and prevention usergroup but were subsequently removed for various reasons
 * Be exempted from first edit dialogues (first-edit-dialog-exempt)
 * Be exempted from welcome tool messages (welcomeexempt)
 * Be notified of reported content (reportedcontent)
 * Can display background tasks (taskmanager)
 * Create/execute background tasks (tasks-user)