Sheldon Rampton wrote:
Anthere wrote:
Yes, this was a bizarre suggestion. Perhaps the next suggested remedy will require financial donations in reparation, before restoring a long-time user's editing privileges.
Actually, the idea of requiring financial donations shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. A system of micropayments could conceivably function as a deterrent to trolls and vandals.
Let's suppose, just hypothetically, that Wikipedia had a system whereby people who engage in trolling or make lots of controversial edits could be required to pay the Wikimedia Foundation 5 cents for every edit they make. (Maybe there could even be a cash *incentive* so that people who have earned a reputation for good editing would *earn* small amounts of money for their edits.)
This is just a rudimentary sketch of how something like this might be implemented. To make it work, there would have to be a significantly different system of user IDs than currently exists, and someone would have to work out a way of preventing people from gaming the system.
Just a thought.
--Sheldon Rampton
Terrible idea. They pay a donation and then think this gives them permission to do what they like on the 'pedia. I cannot agree with this idea.
TBSDY