Larry Sanger wrote:
Ed,
I know you mean very well, and that you're trying to help solve an important problem, but I'm generally opposed to giving admins any special powers that they do not already have have. Maybe give everyone this power?
Isn't there another way to achieve what you are trying to achieve?
Larry
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I agree with Larry on this. All logged-in users (or maybe even all users) should have the power to send a message to unregistered IPs: there is no need for a similar power to talk to logged-in users, as the talk page will already work for them.
Perhaps this could be done by just editing the [[User:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]] page for the appropriate IP.
Neil
How about giving admins the ability to throw up a "Please read this" message.
Something like this:
- User submits an edit
- Wikipedia accepts the edit, and...
- Sends user to a "You have an urgent administrative message" page.
User can then:
- Click on the "Read message" button, or
- Just ignore it
We can think of variations, like, send the user directly to the message page, rather than the "you have a message waiting". Another, for egregious cases, would send the user to the "message waiting" or 'please acknowledge this' page after EVERY edit, until the click an OKAY button.
Ed poor