Fred Bauder wrote:
Nevertheless, some are better than others. Certainly
an option
susceptible to the easy creation of sleeper accounts is worse than the
other alternatives. I am somewhat at a loss as to how a threshold based
on an edit count could be easily gamed as we could all at least look at
the record. Building up a thousand edits just so you can vandalize an
article seems like an awful lot of work.
Not a lot of work for a persistent vandal. A simple bot can make a thousand
"spelling corrections" and "formatting tweaks" easy enough. You're
already
talking about having the foresight to make sleeper accounts, and you're going to
tell me that a few non-suspicious edits first are unthinkable?
It *can* be gamed. The question is just whether it will be enough of a speed
bump to be worth it without seeming like a barrier to gleefully jump over.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)