Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/17/06, Arwel Parry arwel@cartref.demon.co.uk wrote:
The practice of repeatedly issuing "final warnings" has to stop - you can just see the vandals laughing at you (sometimes literally) when nothing ever happens. Issue warnings, then a final warning, and if they don't improve their behaviour, block them.
It would be good if we could put users on probation. Occasionally I've taken the effort to track a vandal, watching and reverting their edits. But it would be nice to be able to say "this user's next edit is 90% likely to be vandalism, hence, let's screen it *before* it goes live". All the edits of probationary users could appear on one screen, and people watching that list could pick out the occasional good ones to let through, much like moderating a mailing list.
Steve
This is something of a perennial proposal. The main problem I see with it is the potential for edit conflicts - if a valid edit goes through between when the probationary edit is made, and when it is approved, there might be trouble merging the two edits together.
John