On 2/3/06, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
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.
I get my data about vandals' habits from twice-daily reviews of a
19,000 item watchlist; where do you get your data from?
The lessons of history.
Okay, since you've got the data--not in terms of numbers, but in terms
of energy and resources, where is the most effort placed? Is it on the
random one-time scatological scribblers? Or the ones who come back
repeatedly? And fight the system?