"it's hard enough to get legitimate contributors to contribute..."
This isn't a problem that coworking has ever suffered btw. Barriers are sometimes good. Actually, in my experience of online communities...barriers are almost ALWAYS good. Tara On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Dossy Shiobara <[email protected]> wrote: > In my experience, it's hard enough to get legitimate contributors to > contribute that adding a barrier means only the most determined > contributors will bother, which is bad. > > Everyone can revert vandalism edits. The challenge with that crappy > PBwiki (seriously, garbage...) is that they added "comments" which are > NOT part of the wiki page that can be edited, which is where spammers > can vandalize all they want and no one (?) can delete or otherwise > revert it. > > Seriously, the best thing to do right now is to disable ALL comments if > possible, delete them all off all the pages, and just use the wiki > proper, the way they're "supposed" to work. Then, vandalism can simply > be reverted, no big deal. > > Also: edits that introduce a URL should present a CAPTCHA. That would > probably eliminate 99% of the spam vandalism. > > Perhaps its time to just put an end to the Coworking Wiki, if the people > with administrative access don't have the bandwidth to maintain it any > more. > > > On 7/1/10 5:19 AM, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace wrote: > > That's a lead in to asking if there's any way we could actually make > > the wiki less accessible rather than adding editors? > > -- > Dossy Shiobara | [email protected] | http://dossy.org/ > Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ > "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own > folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- tara 'missrogue' hunt Company: Shwowp (http://www.shwowp.com) Book: The Whuffie Factor (http://www.thewhuffiefactor.com) Blog: HorsePigCow: Marketing Uncommon (http://horsepigcow.com) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/missrogue phone: 514-679-2951 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
