On 8/25/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/23/06, dmehkeri@swi.com dmehkeri@swi.com wrote:
On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if it is precisely these obstacles which also cuts down on the nonsense.
Damn straight. :) Seriously, what gets posted at AfC is sludge. And that's from the newbie editors who actually made the effort to wade their way through the process and make a submission!
The only benefit in allowing anons to create articles is in stroking their egos long enough for them to become good editors (while deleting their creation in the meantime). We should attempt to quantify that benefit.
Steve
I think it is a very poor assumption to think that anything which would have been created by users not logged in will find its way to AfC. In fact, I believe that the AfC process tends to filter out exactly those submissions which are preferred - casual submissions by someone trying to improve things, and does very little to discourage people who are trying to push a viewpoint from wasting people's time.
I've especially found the AfC process to be ridiculous when I run across a redirect that needs to be created.
Anthony