On 3/9/04 2:28 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@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?