I am actually fairly guilty of this, particularly when working on pages with
complex tables. Is this really such a big deal? Save often is my motto. But
I'll save less frequently if the consensus suggests this is the right way to
go....
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Cunctator" <cunctator(a)kband.com>
To: <wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] vandal bots
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:45, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:30:57AM -0800, Bridget [name omitted for privacy reasons]
wrote:
> > i was watching some city bot spam recent changes and saw the bot
wasn't
> > logged in under any name. it occured to me
that we should set some
kind of
> > limit to the amount of editing that an
unregistered user can do so
that
it's harder to use a bot.
Your own flood of tiny, continual edits is as annoying as the city bot.
You are making the Recent Changes page useless again. Perhaps you could
use the Preview button a lot while you are editing, then think,
cogitate, invest some mental effort, and make a real contribution other
than changing an articles punctuation, and taking 10 edits to do so?
It would be a beneficial habit for Lir to start using the Minor Edit
button.
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