It's an awful idea, but only because there's no way to differentiate between accounts made for the purpose of good, and those made for the purpose of evil.
On 16/08/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Open question to all: do you think that new accounts should be prevented from creating pages? Would it clean out VFD? Or is the idea fundamentally unwiki?
Ryan W. (Merovingian) (bigwiki@earthling.net) [050817 04:57]:
It's an awful idea, but only because there's no way to differentiate between accounts made for the purpose of good, and those made for the purpose of evil.
On 16/08/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Open question to all: do you think that new accounts should be prevented from creating pages? Would it clean out VFD? Or is the idea fundamentally unwiki?
Please note the above quote is from Alphax, not me!
(gotta watch that trimming and those quote levels)
- d.
Ryan W. (Merovingian) wrote:
[...] there's no way to differentiate between accounts made for the purpose of good, and those made for the purpose of evil.
Clearly we need developers to make an addition to the login creation screen!
Please indicate the purpose of this account: [*] Good [ ] Evil
I suppose one could argue that there should be a "Neutral" option too, and that everybody must choose it.
:-)
Stan
Please indicate the purpose of this account: [*] Good [ ] Evil
Excellent idea! Here's a more precise version.
Please indicate the purpose of this account, mark all fields that apply:
[*] Writing encyclopedia articles [ ] POV pushing [ ] Trolling [ ] Sockpuppeting [ ] Evading block [ ] Commercial spamming [ ] None of the above
Regards, Haukur
Stan Shebs wrote:
Clearly we need developers to make an addition to the login creation screen!
Please indicate the purpose of this account: [*] Good [ ] Evil
I suppose one could argue that there should be a "Neutral" option too, and that everybody must choose it.
Yes, that's the tricky bit - we need to allow the Evil Point of View to have its say too. It'd be bad to have have Wikipedia become completely Good-biased. This would all be so much easier if more Internet software developers would just get off their butts and implement RFC 3514 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt in a more widespread manner.
But what about the Lawful/Chaotic alignment axis? That's potentially far more controversial.