Mav,
I agree with your idea about reducing the burdens of those "on patrol" against petty vandalism.
How about some sort of marking or system, whereby you can set the "Looks Good To Me" flag on a particular edit (or on a particular article version, which is not _quite_ the same thing).
I personally would not bother re-checking any anon edit which mav had already looked at and marked okay. If mav says okay, it's good enough for me!
Contrariwise, users could mark an edit (or article version) with: * a "Huh?" flag (I don't understand what the contributor is saying) * a "Bias" flag (Looks like unattributed POV masquerading as _fact_) * a "Copy Edits needed" flag (too many spelling or grammar errors for me)
Note that this would not be a voting system. Nothing automatic would happen to edits, versions, or contributors based on their "score".
But it would give other editors the chance to use filters to see (or avoid seeing) classes of articles needing (or unworthy of) their attention.
Ed Poor, aka Uncle Ed
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 19:08:25 UTC, "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
... How about some sort of marking or system, whereby you can set the "Looks Good To Me" flag on a particular edit (or on a particular article version, which is not _quite_ the same thing).
I personally would not bother re-checking any anon edit which mav had already looked at and marked okay...
Another good idea, and easier to implement than the random surveillance system I've suggested. If such flags showed up in the Recent-changes list, eliminating a lot of duplicated effort, do you think it might stave off the day when the people who watch the list give up from sheer overload?