Who are these 'trusted users'?
On 8/27/06, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/27/06, Stephen Streater
<sbstreater(a)mac.com> wrote:
So what exactly is being proposed?
Anonymous readers of an article will be displayed the most recent
revision of that article which has been marked by a trusted user as
being free of vandalism. There may be more recent revisions, but
those will not be displayed by default; readers will have to
specifically request to see them. A consequence of this is that edits
made by anonymous readers will not be immediately displayed as the
"primary" revision of an article. This is being misrepresented by
some as imposing an approval requirement on such edits before they
become visible, but that's not what it is; such edits are immediately
visible as they are now, just not as the primary version which is
displayed by default to anonymous readers.
I, personally, see this as a great benefit to the vast bulk of our
customers: the chances that Joe Q. Public will go to an article he
found by a Google search and be confronted by unexpected penis go WAY
down with this approach.
Kelly
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