MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
As I said before, the experiment did cut down on a lot of crap, because some newbies simply don't want to register and instead post to AFC where we can nip an article's creation at the core.
But what are the numbers? There's all this raw data sitting there in the database from which it should be relatively straightforward to determine actual statistical measures of what effect the change in policy had, but since the analysis hasn't been done we're reduced to relying on subjective impressions and assertions pulled seemingly out of nowhere. How can I _verify_ that the experiment did or didn't cut down on a lot of crap? I don't personally do any of the various sorts of "patrolling" this change was likely to have an impact on (recent changes, new articles, etc) so I don't even have subjective impressions of my own to go on.