I noticed after HTTPS was enabled by default that there were many fewer
spambots on one of the wikis that I monitor for recent changes. Did anyone
else noticed a decline in spambots after HTTPS was enabled?

This may be relevant to discussions about the highly active editor stats.
While I doubt that spambots and vandals succeed in getting to 100 edits on
the larger Wikipedias very often, rollbackers might. Additionally, a
reduction in spambots and spambot-related rollbacks might affect the number
of new accounts registered and the number of edits per month stats.

Pine
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