On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Sheldon Rampton wrote:
I agree. Here's my solution:
(1) Require people to register, providing a verifiable email address
that is not yahoo or hotmail, as a precondition for contributing.
(Alternately, restrict the NUMBER of contributions that a
non-registered individual can contribute within a 24-hour period.)
Bad idea, the ease of making contributions is one of our major "pull"
factors. Also some people don't have a non-yahoo/hotmail account.
Limiting number of contribution doesn't really seem to have any
advantages, after all if a user goes on a vandalism spree they could
easily use multiple accounts. And having all of their "contributions"
under one account allow for us to block them more easily.
(2) Unambiguously authorize sysops to take immediate,
unilateral
action against egregious abusers (with clear definitions of
"egregious abuse").
I don't oppose this in principle, but I think we have too many admins who
don't use admin powers, and I'd hesitate to increase the power of
inactive admins.
Incidently on the "registration" issue, I think we should collect more
information on major contributors (>1000 major edits) in case we ever need
to get in touch with them after they leave wikipedia.
Imran
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