On 12/1/05, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/1/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
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.
That's a problem inherent in allowing anonymous edits, I suppose. My suggestion about common whitelists and also some kind of edit validation would make this work in general. Add semi-protection to most-vandalised articles and I think the strain of RC patrol would be considerably cut.
semic protection makes things worse because you lose the fly paper effect. Consider:
Vandalotices edit tag for the first time. Hits whatever low profile article they happen to be on.
Thinks cools what else shall I hit. I know GWB
Vandal hits GWB gets noticed and previous vandalism gets picked up at the same time.
-- geni