Ryan Delaney wrote:
Too difficult in the sense of "not worth it". I'm not just talking about coding here though, since I'm not a coder and have no idea how much effort it would cost the devs. I mean it may be too difficult and too costly to implement administratively; see my other email in reply to Jimbo. What I _don't_ want to see is an atmosphere where admins are seen as obligated to scour the page histories to delete all vandal edits. That would slow down RC patrol enormously, which is a job that is tedious and rewardless enough as it is.
I think a lot of the issues being raised are solvable and amount to interface design issues. Certainly we don't want an atmosphere where admins are seen as obligated to scour page histories. But it might be nice if admins could simply 'nuke' individual revisions (and 'unnuke' them, of course).
There are lots of things that we allow admins to do, which other admins can undo (like block vandals). This can just be another tool in our arsenal: the ability for admins to "hide" (we should call it that rather than "delete") certain edits from casual users.
The issue of whether this would allow vandals to make it through an admin election is an interesting one of course. It seems unlikely to me, and if it ever did happen that a vandal was elected admin, we could adjust process. (Calvinball, remember.)
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