Stephen Bain wrote:
On a tangential note, I proposed last month that all the "waiting periods" in the image criteria be removed, since they were only added in the first place because image undeletion didn't exist at the time. The only good argument I heard against the proposal was that bots like OrphanBot need some waiting period in which to do their business. I don't see why images can't simply be put into a pool for bots like OrphanBot to work on, then put into another pool to be deleted immediately - with no further delays - once the bots are done.
Waiting periods gives more opportunity for human review. I usually turn this issue around and ask why we _shouldn't_ have a waiting period. The length of a queue doesn't alter the throughput; the same amount of deletion can be done with a queue or without one, and with the same amount of work.