On 03/03/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 3/2/2008 4:19:31 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, dgerard@gmail.com writes:
You have still failed to address what you were originally claiming: that there was an actual problem with BetacommandBot beyond upsetting people who failed to understand WP:NONFREE or didn't want to.>>
David, the long discussion on-wiki was in general about A) the bot tagging 11 thousand images in a few days and then B) stating that there was some kind of deadline by which they all had to be reviewed. Putting that sort of extreme workload out on the system, creates a situation in which admins rush through trying to reduce the backlog. That is never a reasonable approach, imho. This issue would have never been raised had the bot been programmed to do no more than say 200 a day or whatever.
So suggest that to Betacommand. Sounds reasonable to me.
I'm sure we can all agree that creating thousands of cases to review is not a useful result.
Not all in a hit, no.
Mind you, I suspect 200 a day or 1000 a day or whatever (I would *guess* the latter is getting close to the rate of crap uploads, but anyway) would lead to *more* deletion, as the backlog is much more human-reviewable.
- d.