On 6/29/05, JAY JG <jayjg(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Michael
Turley <michael.turley(a)gmail.com>
The blocking feature makes newbie biting much easier, which is not a
good thing.
The only newbies who get bitten by this are ones who are abusing policy (and
other editors).
Page locking makes enforcing a single POV easier,
which is not a good
thing.
*All tools have a proper use, and all tools can be used abusively.*
Yeah, in theory. But rollback is ideally suited for edit warring, and
newbies would take full advantage.
Jay.
Rollback is *ideally suited* for reverting vandalism. Perhaps it is
equally suited for edit warring, but if it were *more* suited for edit
warring than its intended purpose, I'm pretty sure it would have been
written out of the software by now.
The proposal floated does not include offering rollback ''carte
blanche'' for newbies.
It proposes a system similar to WP:RFA where the feature would have to
be requested and approved by consensus.
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Michael Turley
User:Unfocused