On 7/3/06, Essjay essjaywiki@gmail.com wrote:
So, we should allow unrestricted editing if you're logged out, but not if you're logged in? What's the point of restricting it for logged in users if you'll inconvenience legit editors, who may then leave, and vandals will just go right on vandalizing while logged out.
Ok, maybe we should start this discussion again, I'm getting lost. Is this about page moves or normal edits? For starters, I specifically think we should aim *not* to "inconvenience legit editors". For anons, if there is no way to tell the difference between 100 anons sharing the same IP (like a proxy) making one edit each per minute, and 1 anon making 100 edits in a minute, then I don't think we should apply any restrictions at all.
In any case, I don't really see any major benefit in these proposed restrictions on editing too fast...what problem is trying to be solved here? Restrictions on page moves could be useful, to combat the rare annoying vandal...but still.
Steve