Björn Lindqvist wrote:
I think it is a *very* bad idea. It will add another level to the Wikipedia hiearchy. I'd rather have the sporadic vandals and flame wars than let that happen. In my utopia every anon should be treated exactly the same as Jimbo Wales. Let's just accept the fact that there will always be vandals. They haven't fucked up WP yet so why worry? It's like those patriot laws... :-)
Well, I see what you're saying.
As a response, I will just say that what I liked about his proposal was that it introduced a tool that is 'softer' than the tool that we're using now, page protection. Right now, when things get particularly bad on a page, all we can do is protect it for awhile, and when that happens *no one* can edit.
We'd like to refine everything that we do to the point that we keep limitations on editing to a minimum.
So, yeah, I see what you're saying, but I also see what I was saying. ;-)
--Jimbo