[WikiEN-l] Quasi-protection policy proposal

[Steve Bennett]

On 5/28/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the talk page, Jtdirl has quite a good idea - modify
> semi-protection to be "accounts where first edit was more than four
> days ago" rather than "accounts where creation was more than four days
> ago". Less logistics, but certainly a benefit to the sleeper problem.

No, that change could be just as easily gamed as the creation system.
How would you define "edit'? A user who shows up and modifies his user
page? A user who shows up, presses "random page" and makes one trivial
edit? These don't take substantially longer than creating the account.

We probably do need either a genuine trust metric, or a genuine human
trust system, whereby people can indicate their trust in other
editors.

Steve