[mb-users] Permanently destructive edits

[Jan van Thiel]

(Reply to this 9 month old thread. I starred this in Gmail for a
reason; guess now is the time to reply ;) )

About the need for an undo option for edits:

On Apr 20, 2007 7:46 PM, teknojnky <teknojnky at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone vaguely familiar with wikipedia knows about vandalism, whether it be
> intentional or not, the destruction of data (with no wiki style undo) is a
> detriment to the lifeblood of musicbrainz, both from a financial and
> community perspective.
>
> All I am saying, is that right now the data is open to a huge security risk
> with very little effort and no abiilty to 'undo'. If that does not scare the
> living daylights out of anyone who invests time and/or money into
> musicbrainz, I don't know what will.

I think MusicBrainz is much more unlikely to attract vandalism than
Wikipedia. Mostly because it deals only with *objective* data (which
albums are released, what is the track listing, etc.) whereas
Wikipedia has articles with potential subjective content (e.g. the
Palestina/Israel controversy).

I've only seen 'vandalism' in MusicBrainz once, where a person
apparently had four of fivelogins and tried to push in releases with
votes from all of his logins. He/she wanted to tag his music the way
he/she liked, not following the style guidelines. This is not a
situation we can't handle, certainly not when someone brings this to
the attention of some dedicated editors/voters who can edit/vote
accordingly.

Jan (zout)

P.S. Not trying to reopen this discussion ;)