Brion Vibber wrote:
There's a user JavaScript tool that was developed some time ago which provides about the same one-touch rollback capability for any user. Rollbacks of course are nothing special, it's just a little convenience to automate the process, which in a SoftSecurity fashion gives the interested Good Guys a tiny leg up against random vandals.
The JavaScript tool is also slow, breaks frequently on minor interface changes and has, in the past, had several bugs that would more or less subtly mess up the page being rolled back. It's a really bad substitute for the real thing.
We have the technical capability to add a rollback-only group. But all that creates is another bottleneck: assigning and managing that permission.
I'd support giving rollback privileges to all autoconfirmed users.
There are a lot of ways in which any user can already cause much more damage much more quickly and easily than with rollback. Of course, the rollback feature probably would facilitate revert warring, but we already have a social solution to that: 3RR.