The Cunctator wrote:
What most of the people on this thread fail to
recognize is that
creating anti-vandalism paramilitaries *encourages* vandalism.
That's just a ludicrous point of view - the vast majority of vandals
I deal with neither know nor care about WP internal process. If they
did, they would be able to introduce vandalism in much more subtle
ways, for instance by stacking vandalistic edits behind legitimate
changes by a sockpuppet, mixing vandalism in with a good edit, using
plausible sounding edit summaries, etc. Instead, they tend to add
the first thing that comes to mind, usually scatological.
Oh, I don't know; back when I used to visit #wikipedia-en-vandalism we'd
see some pretty creative ones. Of course, the fact that a blacklist IP
just removed 6500 bytes from the article /did/ make us suspicious of the
edit summary of "correcting a minor typo"... :)
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