On 1/24/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/24/07, Ligulem ligulem@pobox.com wrote:
"sysop approved" links?
Sysops are choosen by consensus. How can that consensus be expanded to "can choose external non-nofollow links by own discretion"?
They already choose whether to spam-blacklist particular links.
Wiki admins don't. Meta admins do.
It's an issue of scaling. It's not reasonable to expect the smallish number small number of admins to maintain a list of this size, while it's reasonable to expect the smaller number of admins on meta to maintain the tiny SBL.
(We don't even have to go as far as using a bloom filter: We handle page coloring by hitting the DB during parsing.. I'd proposed using a bloom filter for this (and even coded a external daemon to handle link color testing) but it just wasn't needed.)