[WikiEN-l] Playing zap (Was the bad BLP)

[Risker]

2008/5/2 michael west <michawest at gmail.com>:

> Recent patrol seems to be a better game than anything you can buy. Zappin
> vandalism before cluebot or another rcer and bangin up counts is very
> cool.
> ICQ is full on afternoons of did ya see that? AIV listed in 30secs. What
> on
> earth is this game? The worst thing is that  these editors are
> mentoring/tutoring new editors to slow down.
>
> The current RC game is lame. Flagged rollback will always miss out
> cross-ip
> abuse. Abusers never get tagged until they are met with a  real time
> Rcer/s
> and a great deal of the abuse is to game a  GOOGLE bot abuse, cleaned
> within
> a minute, but could well be cached for a week.
>
> Oy I don't know how google pick and choose articles to cache. It is a game
> (wp:beans lol).
>
> Can I mess about with an American icon under a proxy for 3 days? I
> wouldn't
> even want to try.
>
> mike
>

Funny...for completely different reasons, I ran across a block that probably
resulted from exactly this "game" - relatively inexperienced user trying to
remove "sourced content", warned by 3 different users, blocked by another.
The only catch was - the now-blocked editor, as sloppy as his edits were,
was actually correct.  The information he was removing was being attributed
to references that said no such thing.  After a few similarly unpleasant
encounters, the rarely posting editor flamed out and was indef blocked.
Subsequent evidence suggests he was probably the subject of the BLP for
which he was blocked.

Speed isn't quite everything.

Risker