On 5/28/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On the talk page, Jtdirl has quite a good idea - modify semi-protection to be "accounts where first edit was more than four days ago" rather than "accounts where creation was more than four days ago". Less logistics, but certainly a benefit to the sleeper problem.
No, that change could be just as easily gamed as the creation system. How would you define "edit'? A user who shows up and modifies his user page? A user who shows up, presses "random page" and makes one trivial edit? These don't take substantially longer than creating the account.
We probably do need either a genuine trust metric, or a genuine human trust system, whereby people can indicate their trust in other editors.
Steve