Hoi, Because it is no longer obvious that vandalism has taken place. You have to look at the changes.. the whole time to find what might be an issue Thanks, GerardM
2009/8/2 Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Tisza Gergőgtisza@gmail.com wrote:
Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell <at> gmail.com> writes:
I don't know how to figure out how much it would 'cost' to have human contributors spot embedded penises snuck into transcodes and then figure out which of several contributing transcoders are doing it and blocking them, only to have the bad user switch IPs and begin again. ... but it seems impossibly expensive even though it's not an actual dollar cost.
Standard solution to that is to perform each operation multiple times on different machines and then compare results. Of course, that raises
bandwidth
costs even further.
Why are we suddenly concerned about someone sneaking obscenity onto a wiki? As if no one has ever snuck a rude picture onto a main page...
Steve
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