That's a nice attitude you've got yourself.
Rob Church
On 03/01/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net> wrote:
I guess we are just fucked if we can't get
your cooperation.
Fred
On Jan 2, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
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)
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