On 3/9/04 2:28 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com> wrote:
This thing has really gotten out of hand.
Wikipedia has grown so large that it is no longer possible to rely on
so-called soft security.
A small community like Ward's Wiki (which is chiefly about software
development) or MeatBall (which is about creating online communities)
which has a HIGH RATIO of readers to writers, can rely on soft security.
Every change is read by dozens of Recent Changes junkies.
The days when a single admin (like Maveric in his heyday) could be "on
duty" for several hours at a time and single-handedly hold back the tide
of vandalism -- well these days are forever gone, my friends.
Sorry, but we are the victims of our own success. And it takes the full
attention of a dozen admins to counter one determined troublemaker.
Time to don the jackboots, my friends. When will we learn that violence
begets violence?