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PsychoPJ Since: Aug, 2009
#1: Oct 6th 2011 at 11:05:25 AM

With the vandals running amok, I thought it might be a good idea to protect pages by creating a bottleneck for protected pages. Just something where a moderator can scan an edit and click on a yes or no button to let it through. This way we don't have to lock pages and submit edits to threads.

blackcat Since: Apr, 2009
#2: Oct 6th 2011 at 11:37:17 AM

There are thousands of edits made every day. Bottleneck does not even begin to describe the back up that would occur if each one required approval, or even one in ten.

PsychoPJ Since: Aug, 2009
#3: Oct 6th 2011 at 3:47:50 PM

That's why just a yes or no button for protected pages. A single page or even a dozen doesn't get thousand of edits in a single day, and it would just be scanning the submitted edits for a second or two to see that it's not a page nuke or some other vandalism. Mods don't even have to read the whole thing.

edited 6th Oct '11 3:49:57 PM by PsychoPJ

Hydronix I'm an Irene! from TV Tropes Since: Apr, 2010
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#4: Oct 6th 2011 at 4:55:40 PM

Actually, they need to read all the edits. The problem with this is that they'd have to read every single one every single time.

And spammers can constantly abuse this feature by asking for inane edits. We don't need to do that. We have a regular topic that asks for edits. That is easier, since you don't have to worry about spam whatsoever.

edited 6th Oct '11 5:10:26 PM by Hydronix

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kyfhv Since: Aug, 2011
#5: Oct 6th 2011 at 5:41:20 PM

I'd imagine something like wikipedia's user approval system would work much better. Editor for lke 10-30 days, and 10-25 edits, followed by automatic user approval. Although i'd imagine it would take a lot more time to code than, say an ask the tropers report button, soo...

I don't think it's an issue now, or at least one i'm aware of. But if it becomes one later due to something like site growth or vandal surges than perhaps it should be considered.

edited 6th Oct '11 5:42:12 PM by kyfhv

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#6: Oct 7th 2011 at 4:27:23 AM

If it works, don't fix it.

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