I know you're worried about our self-governance. That's not in any danger. I.. would rather (probably badly) compare this to SmokeDetector causing trouble, or the comment bot spewing too many comments into the main chat. The people responsible for those bots are also trusted to make sure things get fixed, even if that fix is crude.
So, it may be necessary to turn SmokeDetector off, or prevent the comment bot from posting in the main chatroom until regexes are fixed. Those fixes are heavy-handed, but they're meant to give people time to fix the problem. As Tim explained on MSE, IPS titles *…