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From: Decibel! <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Advocacy wiki
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:02:31 -0700
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On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:13 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> And, do you  have the time / energy to actually moderate such a
>>> beast ... I
>>> think one of the bigger fears is ppl uploading mis-information into
>>> such an
>>> "official wiki", and I think that fear is fairly justified with the
>>> amount of
>>> spam-bots going around filling in forms left-right-and-center ...
>>
>> If it's dependent on a single person to keep it clean, we're doing
>> something wrong. :)
>
> Yeah, you never looked at the docs comment sbefore, did you? There was
> whole team of people supposed to keep taht clean, and we had  
> *thousands* of
> spam and support questions in there. The rate was at least 3 junk  
> for every
> one good.
>
> Now we require a login (that it's really easy to sign up for), and  
> spam is
> down to pretty much zero and the good-to-bad ratio is *much* better.
>
> Bottom line: in theory it works fine, but I doubt it'll work in  
> practice.
> It's been proven not to before.

We should absolutely require a login/account... my point was that  
restricting all editing to just official community members is too  
restrictive for a lot of things.
-- 
Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby                        [email protected]
EnterpriseDB      http://enterprisedb.com      512.569.9461 (cell)

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