Ryan Delaney wrote:
Too difficult in the sense of "not worth
it". I'm not just talking
about coding here though, since I'm not a coder and have no idea how
much effort it would cost the devs. I mean it may be too difficult and
too costly to implement administratively; see my other email in reply
to Jimbo. What I _don't_ want to see is an atmosphere where admins
are seen as obligated to scour the page histories to delete all vandal
edits. That would slow down RC patrol enormously, which is a job that
is tedious and rewardless enough as it is.
I think a lot of the issues being raised are solvable and amount to
interface design issues. Certainly we don't want an atmosphere where
admins are seen as obligated to scour page histories. But it might be
nice if admins could simply 'nuke' individual revisions (and 'unnuke'
them, of course).
There are lots of things that we allow admins to do, which other admins
can undo (like block vandals). This can just be another tool in our
arsenal: the ability for admins to "hide" (we should call it that rather
than "delete") certain edits from casual users.
The issue of whether this would allow vandals to make it through an
admin election is an interesting one of course. It seems unlikely to
me, and if it ever did happen that a vandal was elected admin, we could
adjust process. (Calvinball, remember.)
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