Stephen Bain wrote:
On a tangential note, I proposed last month that all
the "waiting
periods" in the image criteria be removed, since they were only added
in the first place because image undeletion didn't exist at the time.
The only good argument I heard against the proposal was that bots like
OrphanBot need some waiting period in which to do their business. I
don't see why images can't simply be put into a pool for bots like
OrphanBot to work on, then put into another pool to be deleted
immediately - with no further delays - once the bots are done.
Waiting periods gives more opportunity for human review. I usually turn
this issue around and ask why we _shouldn't_ have a waiting period. The
length of a queue doesn't alter the throughput; the same amount of
deletion can be done with a queue or without one, and with the same
amount of work.