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Yeah, we should get other types of locks, like:
- Bronze Lock: To stop most vandalism while keeping productivity for good editors. To edit the page, you need to have 10+ edits and 7+ account days.
- Silver Lock: If vandalism is persistent or a page is important policy, but editors may be needed. To edit the page, you need to have 500+ edits and 42+ account days.
- Gold Lock: For insanely persistent vandalism, critical policy pages, pages that should never be recreated (including P5 cut pages) or archives. To edit the page, you need to be a moderator.
That sounds good. I'd also add "enforcement of PRLC" to Gold Lock (meaning it can serve double duty rather than needing a separate category like Wikipedia's sky blue (salt) lock.)
Does TV Tropes even have a system for counting user's edits as it is? I haven't seen one, which might mean the software doesn't have the ability to do so at this time.
^ Assuming our edit history is in a SQL (or similar) database, there should be an easy way to extract the number of edits from a user.
No. I use a VPN or proxy, and Wikipedia declares me banned for no other reason that that. Being banned by username for something I legit did would be fine, but not for simply protecting myself from location hackers.
Bump. Is this a no go then? I'd really like a mod to chime in here.
Edited by Theatre_Maven_3695
^^ How does using a VPN correlate with multilevel page locks?
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The latest attack by The Troll Who Must Not Be Named gave me an idea. What if we had a multilevel page protection system, similar to Wikipedia's (that is, pages can be locked only to people with an account below a certain age and number of edits). Yes, I'm aware this is a huge change, and as such would likely need to wait for 2.0, (not to mention deliciously ironic given the bee up this particular troll's ass) but it would be a nice way to punish vandals and trolls without punishing every legit John Q. Troper for one idiot's GIFT. Thoughts?
Edited by Theatre_Maven_3695