On 11/26/03 5:06 PM, "Martin Harper" martin@myreddice.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
All right, Votes for Deletion is broken.
And has been for some time. Are you volunteering to write the code to fix it?
If by "the code" you mean the "code of behavior", then yes. This is a situation where the solution is not primarily technological, but social.
Of course, as Lessig discussed, it's a fallacy to believe that the two kinds of code (legal and machine) are wholly distinct.
Fortunately, most of the necessary tools necessary for solving the bad entry problem have now been developed: stub indicators, the "restore deleted edits" option, the deletion log (though that needs to have a more friendly interface).
Now the problem is primarily behavioral, which can be fixed through "legal" code.