Steve Bennett wrote:
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.
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I think I have to agree with all of the above; it seems this delved off as a sub-thread of the original, discussing edit throttles rather than pagemoves. I certainly have to agree with questioning the benefit of any change at all; we're doing pretty well without any restrictions, and if a wiki is having a problem with pagemove vandalism, it shouldn't be that hard for a list full of techies (Disclaimer: I'm not one.) to come up with a pagemove-vandal-blocking-bot just like the one running on en.wiki.
Essjay