Björn Lindqvist wrote:
I think it is a *very* bad idea. It will add another
level to the
Wikipedia hiearchy. I'd rather have the sporadic vandals and flame wars
than let that happen. In my utopia every anon should be treated exactly
the same as Jimbo Wales.
Let's just accept the fact that there will always be vandals. They
haven't fucked up WP yet so why worry?
It's like those patriot laws... :-)
Well, I see what you're saying.
As a response, I will just say that what I liked about his proposal
was that it introduced a tool that is 'softer' than the tool that
we're using now, page protection. Right now, when things get
particularly bad on a page, all we can do is protect it for awhile,
and when that happens *no one* can edit.
We'd like to refine everything that we do to the point that we keep
limitations on editing to a minimum.
So, yeah, I see what you're saying, but I also see what I was saying.
;-)
--Jimbo