On 12/7/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
And maybe the problem will shift from new
articles to edits of
existing articles...in which case we may need to extend the
restriction to making edits as well?
This is not a slippery slope. We already don't allow newly-registered users to move
pages. So
there is a ledge. As I said before: We should only lock things down slowly and only when
not doing
so will cause more harm than good.
-- mav
We already don't allow users who use anonomous proxies (even if they
are logged in, in fact even if they are admins) to make edits, so
there's "a ledge" there too.
Of course we should only lock things down slowly and only when not
doing so will cause more harm than good. Not allowing people to
create new pages unless they've already had an account for a while
*would* (in my opinion) cause more harm than good. There is, quite
frankly, no experiment that I can foresee be performed that would
convince me otherwise, because the harm would likely take place over a
long time period.
Anthony