Given the opposition to giving even rollback to autoconfirmed users -- which is far more benign than any kind of "moderation", since such moderation would have to be able to prevent users editing somehow in order to fully replace blocking -- I think that's unlikely.
--- Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/12/07, Monahon, Peter B. Peter.Monahon@uspto.gov wrote:
why banning/blocking et cetera be banned, and a moderation system be developed to handle the transom
between the
community on one side, and
spam/vandalism/off-topic-contributions on the
other, instead of banning.
I'm sure that's often been suggested before, but you know, that's the best damn idea I've heard all month (although it's only the twelfth, to be fair). Eliminate blocking, and replace it with moderation; eliminate protection, and replace it with flagged revisions; then you just have to find something to replace deletion with, and adminship becomes meaningless and can all but be tossed out, since all this stuff can be given to autoconfirmed users. It's just a matter of coming up with a good interface and mechanism for the various rights -- that's the rub.
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