[Wikipedia-l] Edit speed choking

[Richard Holton]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:48:20 -0500, Sj <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:10:39 -0600, Phil Sandifer

> > 2) What good reasons are there to not throttle contributors for their
> > first 100 edits so that they cannot launch widespread  changes? (That
> > is, does anything that people tend to do in their first 100 edits
> > actually require editing more than once a minute?)
> 
> None that I can think of.   While we're at it, we could disable the
> "move page" tab for the same period of time.  As you(?) mentioned
> elsewhere, a site like slashdot has a permanent edit throttle, without
> noticeably dampening user enthusiasm..
> 
As a new user, you might want/need to edit the same page several times
in succession to get things right. Any edit count based throttling
should take that into account.

-- Rich Holton

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