On 10/20/05, Alphax <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Anthony DiPierro wrote:
It'd be nice if we could get the regular
anons to log in, but still let
the
casual anons edit anonymously, but I'm not
really sure how to do this.
A username is more anonymous than an IP, and provides a greater sense of
identity. It's impossible to tell which of an IP's edits are good and
bad, because good and bad users could be using it.
"A username is more anonymous than an IP, and [a username] provides a
greater sense of identity"? I must not be understanding what you mean,
because that statement seems to contradict itself.
"It's impossible to tell which of an IPs edits are good and bad, because
good and bad users could be using it." True, but if a user only makes one or
two edits it really doesn't matter anyway. That's what I mean by "casual
anons", the kind of people who would only create an account, make a couple
edits, and then forget they created an account in the first place. For those
people, who probably make up the majority of anon edits, logging in is
meaningless and makes it harder to sort out the good from the bad.
And of course, it's impossible to tell which of a username's edits are good
and bad. In order to trust that an editor is a "good" editor, they have to
make more than just a few edits. If we could convince those good editors to
create accounts, that would be useful, but for the casual editors it'd
probably be easier if we just threw them all under a single account, and
kept the IP addresses only for the purposes of implementing blocks.
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