[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

[Anthony]

On 3/30/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> What we should be asking is whether what we're doing is reasonable. Is
> it reasonable to host pages about living persons that can be edited by
> any anonymous person of any age in the world, when we have no clear
> way of patrolling those pages to make sure anything negative or unfair
> is removed immediately?

I'd say yes, it is reasonable.  Every free webhosting site on the
Internet does exactly what you described.  And I'd note that the only
way *not* to have the situation which you describe would be to
disallow anonymous editing or to run every edit through a review
board.

> And when, even when such pages are spotted,
> getting rid of the bad stuff often involves a giant fuss, with admins
> unsure of what action they're allowed to take, because if they go too
> far they risk being desysopped?

That's unreasonable, but I think you'd have a hard time blaming the
WMF for such a situation.

Anthony