The Cunctator wrote:
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?
And your idea is? Ed is right, there are an amazing number of vandals out there, and they seem to have not the slightest hesitation in doing violence to us 24 hours a day.
Stan