Technical salvation:
Voting on *article quality rank* will allow for some degree of handling. People might even be able to mass-delete entire ranks of low-quality articles, provided theyve seen enough votes. The difference being that its not from removed from the article at VFD, but part of the article's local aspects, just like discussion, watch, etc. This removes the need for executioners, and leaves only the trashtakers, who dont need to argue, if they follow the guidelines. Central lists would be viewable via sorted RC.
SV
--- Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
I'm not sure the current operation of VFD could
fairly have been predicted
early enough to strangle it at birth. We need a
deletion mechanism, but not
this one.
It seemed to work well enough for the 8-10 months I was actively involved in voting/discussing/closing entries there. There were still complaints, but mostly from "inclusionists" who disliked it simply because it was a venue for deleting articles.
Is it significantly worse now, or just scales badly, or have the inclusionists simply gotten louder voices? I must confess I haven't messed with it in 6 months or so just because I lost interest in most meta-pages and went back to writing articles. =]
-Mark
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