On 09/08/2014 10:18 AM, Risker wrote:
The most obvious one is automatic signing of comments, and it is something that we have technically been able to impose for years; sinebot didn't come into existence in a vacuum.
I suppose that's a philosophical divergence between us then - that sinebot even needs to exist to me is demonstration that the system is broken.
You say that discussion isn't all that much harder than editing content. Even if I agreed with that (and I do not, edit conflicts in articles are much rarer than on talk pages - and usually easier to sort out), that's not a *good* thing!
Participating in discussion should be much, *much* easier than editing articles: encouraging newbies to seek help and participate in the community *before* diving in anything but trivial article edits would be an immensely powerful retention tool!
(Which isn't to say that editing articles doesn't *also* need a lot of help - but that's a different project).
-- Marc