On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:04:35 PM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 7:23:50 PM UTC-6, tawheed abdul-raheeem wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 1:56:04 PM UTC-5, MarcWeber wrote: > > > I haven't seen a single spam commit on my wiki yet. And if it happens > > > > I dont doubt that but that is probably because it has not yet gained a > > lot of traction from the community and also web bots. I was not there > > when vim-wikia started but I am pretty sure that they made such > > assumptions. > > > > On the contrary. vim-wikia was started specifically BECAUSE the original > vim tips, hosted on vim.org, were seeing excessive amounts of spam, and > it was too hard to deal with the spam. Wikia provides staff to help > fight spam, filters, revert tools, page protection (temporary), etc. > > One of the biggest goals of the vim tips, is to allow ANYBODY to add or > comment on them (or edit them, in the wiki anyway). Requiring a github > or other account to edit will turn too many people away. Requiring all > submissions to go through a single person will also discourage > participation. > > Look, it's cool that you want to share your Vim knowledge with the > community with a weekly tweet or something. But it's not going to > replace the tips in the current form.
Its definitely a start, lets see how far it goes and its potential. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
