Cannot this problem be solved by simply tightening up signing up
criteria as well as banning anonymous IPs altogether?
Meg
On 14/08/07, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/13/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 8/13/07, David Goodman
<dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That means that you're clever enough to spot
not just the obvious, but
the reasonably subtle. The ones who are really good at it are the ones
you won't catch. or do you assume that nobody is that good?
We don't have to make it impossible, just difficult.
This is helped by the fact that most obsessive enough to disrupt
Wikipedia to that extent are not stable, sensible individuals.
As with the spam problem, the far greater long term danger is the ones
who have some motivation to do it in a calm and professional manner,
rather than being raving loons who are self-evident on close
inspection.
This is one reason to be very wary of those selling "Wikipedia
Marketing" services...
Most of the ones so far are not really all that subtle. A natural
selection filter will remove the dumb ones, and someone who can do it
subtly will remain.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com
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