[WikiEN-l] Before reverting blanking, please read the text

[Peter Ansell]

On 20/10/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> But it is ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE for a human to act in a manner which
> is no more intelligent than a bot. If you are not going to read when
> you revert a blanking, you should leave the work to a bot which will
> generally do a better, faster, and more consistent job than you ... a
> human who is pretending to be a bot.

You contradict yourself. If you leave it to the bot, you are assuming
it is more intelligent than you are, or, you are just ignoring a
problem. Why leave something for a bot, that you could have done on
sight. The edit in the first post was a short edit. Do you really
really expect everyone to, 1) wait for a bot, which may or may not
come, or 2) to read the entirety of every edit which can be
comfortably, with a large margin, to be considered vandalism. Bots are
not more consistent with their intelligence, they are just plain dumb.
Consistency in your context does not mean the intelligent consistency.

Peter Ansell