Who are these 'trusted users'?
On 8/27/06, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/27/06, Stephen Streater sbstreater@mac.com wrote:
So what exactly is being proposed?
Anonymous readers of an article will be displayed the most recent revision of that article which has been marked by a trusted user as being free of vandalism. There may be more recent revisions, but those will not be displayed by default; readers will have to specifically request to see them. A consequence of this is that edits made by anonymous readers will not be immediately displayed as the "primary" revision of an article. This is being misrepresented by some as imposing an approval requirement on such edits before they become visible, but that's not what it is; such edits are immediately visible as they are now, just not as the primary version which is displayed by default to anonymous readers.
I, personally, see this as a great benefit to the vast bulk of our customers: the chances that Joe Q. Public will go to an article he found by a Google search and be confronted by unexpected penis go WAY down with this approach.
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