When thinking about this idea, don't assume what form it would take.
Bottom line, if it takes a few days to gain enough power to do
serious vandalism, engaging in serious vandalism would not be fun,
but a stone drag since all the rigamarole (which for a first time
user could possibly take the form of learning about the wiki) will
have to be gone through again. Faster then the first time, but still
time consuming.
Fred
On Oct 22, 2005, at 10:11 PM, Alphax wrote:
I'm not sure if I like the idea that one of
us suggested (that
users gain
"experience points" like in a MUD) because it is just another way for
newbies to be discriminated against even for good faith edits. But
perhaps a
"edit faith quality level" could be maintained for each user and
it would
take only say 5 days with at least 5 good faith edits or 50 good
faith edits
for a new user to be ramped up to 100%.
We also have our fair share of clueless newbies; such a meta-
moderation
system would inevitably disadvantage them, and it would be very
easy for
experienced "problem users" to game the system.
Presumably it would be easy to profile the
behaviour of an
experienced user
who creates a sockpuppet vs an inexperienced user who creates a
new account
for the first time. And based on matching this profile, the
software would
delay the increase of "edit faith level". This might delay
legitimate good
faith sockpuppets for a few more days or so before their "faith
quality
level" would reach 100%, but would help keep control on shortterm
sockpuppets created specifically to be used for bad faith edits.
Show me a program that can work out if a given program will
terminate or
not and I will show you a program to detect and block trolls, vandals
and sockpuppets :)