On 10/01/2008, gwern0@gmail.com gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think we have vandalism covered that well.
I'm a quiet editor; I occasionally write articles and tweak things up, and I certainly don't go looking for vandalism. So why is it that I keep needing to rv and undo all the time, even when I've, say, come back from weeks of vacation and am catching up on diffs from days and days ago?
Ditto.
Thing is, here, what we're doing is catching hitherto unidentified vandalism - it wasn't spotted so it wasn't reverted, and if it wasn't reverted at it doesn't make any difference as to whether it wasn't [reverted by undo] or wasn't [reverted manually] or wasn't [reverted with rollback].
Allowing people to revert faster doesn't help this problem. It helps with "we have identified vandalism *but not reverted it yet*", because it clears that backlog faster, but it won't do a whit for stuff they don't spot, either positively or negatively.