On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Hunter Peress wrote:
If you agree with me that trolling is an issue and that my solution is effective (or some derivate of it yet to be chiseled out), then it will be FACT that non-registered users will put more hit on the server, thus its logical to put them at a lower priority (something that ALSO will be an anti-troll mechanism).
1. I agree that trolling is an issue, it is however a very minor one compared to many others. 2. I do not agree that your solution is effective. Or rather, that its effectiveness is anywhere near to large enough to compare to its damage. 3. The amount of extra hit on the server is negligible. I'm starting to believe that you have something against anonymous users.
ALSO, i believe that one 50 character add/delete (as discussed in previous message) should result in automatic write-blocking until they make the effort to write an email (or use some web interface) explaining their actions.
You've reached the point. This is where your proposals go from 'bad' to 'ridiculous'. So now I should write an email each time I forget to login to the (fill in some language I do not normally edit in) wikipedia when adding one too many interwiki links at the same time? They are already not going well. This way, they will likely go to a complete halt.
There are NO anonymity/privacy issues from making someone register.
Maybe not. But there are other issues. Such as some people simply not wanting to, getting logged out all the time or not wanting to accept cookies. To name just a few.
Andre Engels