On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:10:39 -0600, Phil Sandifer sandifer@sbcglobal.net wrote:
What would be the result/problem/whatever of an edit speed throttle on new accounts. I'm thinking an edit a minute for the first 100 edits. I know edit count is a resource intensive query,
This sounds like a great idea. It's important precisely because it increases the leverage serious contributors have over repeat vandals.
As to the technical aspect: if a separate table like "user_data" has a field "edit_count" that is updated every time the user makes an edit, it will not be so expensive to record (on-edit actions are comparatively reasonable), and will be cheap to query. That would not even be a particularly difficult database-change to make, since it could be a new table, rather than a new column in an old one.
SJ
I don't know the tech answers here as I'm not a dev. My main two questions are:
- Is an edit throttle feasable?
- What good reasons are there to not throttle contributors for their
first 100 edits so that they cannot launch widespread changes? (That is, does anything that people tend to do in their first 100 edits actually require editing more than once a minute?)
None that I can think of. While we're at it, we could disable the "move page" tab for the same period of time. As you(?) mentioned elsewhere, a site like slashdot has a permanent edit throttle, without noticeably dampening user enthusiasm..