On 02/07/06, William Allen Simpson william.allen.simpson@gmail.com wrote:
It amazes me, but several times in the past week, I've been blindsided by page move vandals. The current restriction apparently allows moves automatically after a week?
Moves are restricted to logged-in, autoconfirmed users. Right now, that means a user whose account has existed for 4 * 86400 seconds, or four days.
No bot or editor or administrator should be able to do more than 1 move per minute. Just reject them. That should be easy to do in software. And maybe enforcement of clearing double redirects.
I explained on the recent bug you filed that the ping limiter was switched off and even wrote that we'd need to rewrite it.
No bot or editor should be able to do more than 1 edit per 20 seconds. Just queue the edit until the time has elapsed. Of course, administrators should be able to go faster, as they may be hurrying to fix a problem.
Queuing edits brings problems of its own.
Rob Church