[mb-users] Brainztorming: rank edits, not users

[Philip Jägenstedt]

Just to play the devils advocate, there are a few problems with the suggestion:

* The burden of the server increases as it would be nessary to do a
lot of checks and calculations. The user-portion of the rank wouldn't
be cacheable either as it could potentially change with every edit.
Possibly this could all be implented via MotBot instead of real-time.
* If new users are instantly thrown in the fire of us over-zealous
voters, they might be deterred and leave. Review is good, but might
some feel "stalked"?

Philip

On 5/1/08, Per Øyvind Øygard <peroyvo at stud.ntnu.no> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:38:05 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt <philip at foolip.org>
>  wrote:
>
>
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > I had an idea while showering this morning. There's been some talking
>  > about adding new user levels between the standard editor and
>  > autoeditors, or otherwise provde a ranking system to tell the bad
>  > edits from the good.
>  >
>  > Objective: find those edits most in need of checking (separate noise
>  > and signal in the edit queue)
>  >
>
>
> A great idea in my opinion, and one that should be quite easy to do
>  technically speaking.
>
>  Another advantage not mentioned is that if we weigh edits from new editors
>  heavily then their edits will be pushed through much quicker than they
>  usually would, which should hopefully encourage them to do more edits.
>  It's sort of "false advertisment", but making edits easier and faster for
>  new editors is a good thing in my opinion.
>
>  It would also stop new editors from attaching their myspace accounts to
>  "Various Artists". ;)
>
>
>  --
>  Per (Wizzcat)
>
>
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