On 11/06/2013 04:54 PM, Chad wrote:
How about we make editbugs self-granting? That is, if you've got editbugs you can give it to others (like we did with Coder a few years ago). It works pretty well, scales infinitely, and tends to protect itself against abuse.
I agree with the others that the status quo is not a huge problem. Occasionally, people ask for editbugs, and they get it. It's still a obstacle; the question is just how significant.
Thus, I think this idea is worth trying.
If the vandal suddenly reappears, it's pretty easy to figure out who they are or who let them in at that point.
Yep. I'm assuming there is an easy to lookup log for this. There's still the possibility that vandals will be really disruptive, and do things like chains of editbugs, sleeper accounts, etc. But if so we can turn it off again, and/or require that people be stricter (on risk of losing their own editbugs), to stop the root of the chain.
Some kind of auto-confirmed (e.g. 5+ bug edits and 4 days) would be better (i.e. you have editbugs, and you're autoconfirmed, so you can grant), but I'm not sure how difficult that is to implement
Matt Flaschen