[WikiEN-l] Thread breakage

Sam Spade samspade.thomasjefferson at googlemail.com
Sat Jan 7 18:48:44 UTC 2006


I don't know what your talking about, but if you explain it more
clearly, and in a more polite tone, I may be of some assistance.

Sam Spade

On 1/7/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sam Spade wrote:
> > I totally agree with the need for this. It's not about replacing human
> > judgment, it's about giving tools to improve human judgment. For any
> > proposal to work though, I think we need a way of indicating that an
> > edit was "bad" in some sense.  In eBay parlance, it would be like
> > negative feedback. But at least with that, you could start to count the
> > number of good/bad edits for a user. It would be incredibly handy to
> > know that a given user was +11,000 (56% good) (in other words, a very
> > active but controversial user - probably a pain in the arse), as
> > compared to +300 (99% good) - new, but doing a great job.
> >
> > Any system can be gamed - you just have to make it not worth anyone's
> > time.  Google pagerank can be gamed, but it takes a lot of effort and is
> > very difficult to do cheaply.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > I also very much like this proposal. If nothing else it would clarify
> > me for who I am, and give certain people alot less room to insult and
> > stigmatise others based on tarbaby terms like "troll".
> >
> > Sam Spade
> >
>
> Damnit, can you PLEASE stop replying to MY messages, including what
> SOMEONE ELSE wrote, and not quoting it properly?
>
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