On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Charlotte Webb
<charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/30/08, Wilhelm Schnotz
<wilhelm(a)nixeagle.org> wrote:
Secondly there is the issue of google indexing
our new pages very
quickly. I have heard estimates that new articles are out on google
anywhere from 1 hour to 5 hours. We do need to make sure attacks and
spam are removed before google indexs them.
If this is truly the root of all urgency we should turn on flaggedrevs.
In the beginning we would want Google to index only an article's last
stable version (if one exists).
After a certain grace period (to keep known-good content from
vanishing), we can begin instructing Google to stop indexing articles
which have no flagged rev and to de-index existing unflagged revs.
While I think this would be the best strategy to avoid the scenarios
you describe, I don't think it has anything to do with the shelf-life
of articles tagged for speedy deletion.
Some users like to nuke every {{third-world-topic-stub}} from
geostationary orbit because it is like a video game to them. Faster
pussycat, kill, kill, and let no mayfly die of natural causes.
Perhaps some of this energy can be channeled toward other tasks.
Depends. If those efforts are channelled towards difficult stuff, it
could make things worse. The trick is to find something else ongoing,
backlogged, interesting and simple and rewarding and useful (that last
one might be difficult), and directing the efforts towards that.
Carcharoth