Have you ever looked at a regular day of submissions at AFC?
Each and every one of them is one more than hasn't been created by an
ignorant newbie
and avoided overworking admins with the need to delete it.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure if that effect is undone by the amount of logged
in newbies.
Was there a spike in AFD entries at the time? - ~~~~
Mgm
On 6/21/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
As I said before, the experiment did cut down on
a lot of crap, because
some
newbies simply don't want to register and
instead post to AFC where we
can
nip an article's creation at the core.
But what are the numbers? There's all this raw data sitting there in the
database from which it should be relatively straightforward to determine
actual statistical measures of what effect the change in policy had, but
since the analysis hasn't been done we're reduced to relying on
subjective impressions and assertions pulled seemingly out of nowhere.
How can I _verify_ that the experiment did or didn't cut down on a lot
of crap? I don't personally do any of the various sorts of "patrolling"
this change was likely to have an impact on (recent changes, new
articles, etc) so I don't even have subjective impressions of my own to
go on.
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