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