actionforum(a)comcast.net wrote:
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Although
it's a prominent PITA, the page move vandalism is probably not
presently bad enough to disable the last 10% of accounts from page moves
as an emergency measure.
What if we lowered it to 1%. how many people would that affect and for
how long roughly? ( I take it that we are still growing
exponentially?)
How many users have EVER used move? Why not disable it, and make it a sysop only
function. I don't think its meaning is intuitive, the only time I ever tried to use
it was to reverse a vandal that had moved the page, and I think I botched it.
-- Silverback
Moving is the recommended way of fixing a bad title, so we don't
want to discourage its use too much. Has anybody suggested a daily
limit, say five per day? Vulnerable to socks of course.
I wonder how users would like an automated status increase based
on activity; save one's 300th edit, and get a little note on
the talk page saying "Congratulations, you are now considered an
experienced editor, and have received the following new powers:
unlimited page moving and the ability to vote on deletions."
Like MMORPGs, always have a little carrot dangling out there.
"You have have reached 500,000 edits; you may now hard-ban your
foes simply by forming the thought." :-)
Stan