On 12/8/05, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Carbonite wrote:
>On 12/8/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>By the way, I really hope the experiment of switching off anon page
>>creation is followed up with an experiment in switching off AFD for a
>>month.
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>Isn't that a bit like experimenting with not taking out your trash for
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>
a
>month? They're both fairly unpleasant
experiences that no one really
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>
wants
>to do, but they can't be halted without
some other way of getting rid
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of the
refuse.
If the volunteer garbagemen are driving people out of the town as hard
as they can, it would probably be less damaging to the community and
be a REALLY GOOD incentive to come up with something less socially
toxic. See evidence in current RFAr.
Right. And "trash" is more akin to speedy deletes, which is
altogether different. AfD candidates are rarely hurting anyone; just
out of place or against one or another content policy.
Looking at the huge number of articles on AfD that are unanimously
deleted, I'm not sure how else to describe them other than "trash". These
articles may not be as bad as speedy deletes (the decaying food that will
cause a stench if not quickly removed), but that doesn't mean they should be
kept. What we need is a process to efficiently remove articles that
currently receive 100% support for deletion on AfD. If these articles no
longer had to go through AfD, I think we probably could scrap the whole
thing and send the volunteer garbagemen packing.
Carbonite