[WikiEN-l] How is validation supposed to work?

[David Gerard]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 23/11/05, Ilya N. <ilyanep at gmail.com> wrote:

>>Consider a bot (or many humans) going into the validation system and sending
>>totally bogus (or even offensive) entries into it.

> My understanding of the validation feature was that it was a
> "0,1,2,3,4,5 - pick one" type system, rather than a "Please leave
> comments" one, meaning that whilst you could game it with a bot - and
> no doubt that'll be attempted by a rather cunning linkspammer or three
> - you couldn't fill it with offensive entries. (Or will there be a
> comments field? My connection seems to be a bit unfriendly with meta.
> this morning, and I haven't been checking lately...)


There's a comment space too.


> But that's what the testing phase is for. We _want_ people to try and
> spam it, try to vandalise it, do all this stuff. Then we can figure
> out what's good in the validation system and what's bad - perhaps we
> could only make comments visible to logged-in users, or to admins, if
> there's a problem with junk filling them up, or implement a filter to
> only show "useful" comments.


Yep. This is why we haven't fixed the rules of this game of Calvinball.


- d.