[Wikipedia-l] vandal bots

[Steve Callaway]

I am actually fairly guilty of this, particularly when working on pages with
complex tables. Is this really such a big deal? Save often is my motto. But
I'll save less frequently if the consensus suggests this is the right way to
go....

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Cunctator" <cunctator at kband.com>
To: <wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] vandal bots


> On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:45, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:30:57AM -0800, Bridget [name omitted for privacy reasons] wrote:
> > >   i was watching some city bot spam recent changes and saw the bot
wasn't
> > >   logged in under any name. it occured to me that we should set some
kind of
> > >   limit to the amount of editing that an unregistered user can do so
that
> > >   it's harder to use a bot.
> >
> > Your own flood of tiny, continual edits is as annoying as the city bot.
> > You are making the Recent Changes page useless again.  Perhaps you could
> > use the Preview button a lot while you are editing, then think,
> > cogitate, invest some mental effort, and make a real contribution other
> > than changing an articles punctuation, and taking 10 edits to do so?
>
> It would be a beneficial habit for Lir to start using the Minor Edit
> button.
>
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