On 12/1/05, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/1/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
It's posible but it hits a brick wall pretty fast. A lot of the vandalism on my watchlist is from anons.
Optimiseing is good but it hits problems:
You can only go so far. If you sart ignoreing too many edits because you think they are safe vandles will start to exploit that.
Yep, a lot of the vandalism is from anons. I personally would never whitelist anons, as that just isn't reliable. But with a whitelist you cut out all the users who do make good edits, meaning you don't have to check them. All the sharing does beyond what already exists is optimises it for use by many people.
Of course, not everyone should use this system. Any universally-used system has loop-holes. Having numerous systems means the loopholes disappear, or at least become insignificant.
I'm sure there *are* loopholes, but I haven't seen them yet. Care to expand?
When I do RC patrol I do it the old fashioned way and whitelist everyone who isn't an anon. Other than say saturday morning and the like that still means there are far to many edits for me to cheack all of them.
-- geni