On 12/7/05, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
And that is two actions instead of one to remove
patent nonsense (at least double the work). Thus
it makes sense to limit the amount of patent nonsense we get (and thus that effort could
be used
somewhere else). Not allowing anons and newbies to upload images limits the amount of crap
images
we have to deal with.
But new page patrollers have had a consensus for a while (this was
previously discussed on the list) that this was never a major burden.
At any given time, 2-3 patrollers could deal with the stuff that came
in. Often, when I did new page patrol, I was actually a bit bored by
the slow rate at which crap articles I could delete came in at. This
seems like a solution in search of a problem, if that's the supposed
problem it's addressing.
-Mark
Maybe new page patrol needs to be more about researching and improving
new articles and less about "deleting crap". The article that started
this whole discussion wasn't "crap". It wasn't "nn cruft" or
"vanity". But it did have some serious problems that could have been
resolved if more time was spent researching it.
I'm not saying this to lay blame, after all new page patrol is a
volunteer effort so any help is better than nothing. But if you're
ever "bored" I can think of a few million things to do, things that
are more important than "deleting crap" anyway.
Anthony