Could we sanity-check it so that (say) IP edits from more than a week or a month ago aren't thankable? This would reduce a lot of the chance of getting the wrong person, and I suspect most thanks are on edits made within the past 48 hours.
(actually, there's a fun research question - what's the time-distribution of thanks like?)
If IPs get thanks it suggests they're getting notifications. What other notifications make sense for an IP? "Your edit was reverted", with the same caveats?
Andrew.
On 12 September 2014 12:14, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 September 2014 12:10, Pau Giner pginer@wikimedia.org wrote:
I urge again that it be made possible to thank IPs.
If this is considered, it may be worth it to expose any warning in a positive way that encourages registration (e.g., "Since that was an anonymous edit, you may not be the person who did it. You can get a more accurate information on the impact of your edits by creating an account"). That could help anonymous users to get exposed to the advantages of registering (without forcing them to do).
I think that would completely solve most of the objections I've heard to the idea.
Really, I've been here for years and the buzz from a "thanks" was amazing. That's precisely what we really, really want someone trepidatiously making that first tentative IP typo correction to feel.
- d.
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