[WikiEN-l] vote-stacking and userboxes

[Fred Bauder]

A more benign perspective is that userboxes makes it possible to  
easily identify users who are interested in a subject and give them  
an opportunity to contribute to decision making. The war over  
userboxes has been a lot worse than the userboxes.

Fred

On May 4, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Raphael Wegmann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> as everybody probably knows here, userboxes made vote-stacking
> und campaigning easy, since one can easily find the "right" people
> to vote on a subject.
>
> Maybe a technical solution to this problem is possible.
> What if a bot substitutes all userboxes on the user-pages?
> Maybe it's even possible to somehow "tag" a template,
> so it is always substituted? This could be used on warning
> templates as well.
>
> Of course this wouldn't eliminate vote-stacking at all,
> since one can still find the "right" people on various
> Wikiproject pages, but IMHO it's still a step in the right
> direction.
>
> best regards
> -- 
> Raphael
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