From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com
Neat! But who gets to mark an edit as "patrolled"? Letting an anon or new user do that would tend to defeat the purpose. Also, depending on a single person's judgment may be problematic as well. Ideally an article would need to be viewed by 3 non-newbies/anons to get the "patrolled" tag.
I don't think so. It's not as if marked articles would never be looked at. The function of the feature, as I see it, is not to be technical armor against bad behavior and bad faith, but to reduce Wikistress by insuring that many eyes _do not_ look at new articles if many eyes are not needed.
I think it's a very good idea. And it doesn't need to work perfectly in order for it to work.
I don't think it will help dramatically, but I think it will help noticeably.
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