https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18511
FT2 <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #10 from FT2 <[email protected]> 2009-04-29 04:14:44 UTC --- (Copying from an email sent earlier today on this topic, with minor edits) As an oversighter,I have very rarely used oversight for quite some time now, and if I do, it's after some reflection. The main reason I would use oversight, and why we still have use for that tool, is that there are cases where it is important the edit vanishes and is not merely marked as "deleted". Not at all common, but it happens. Trivial examples: 1/ A stalker/harasser leaves a "love note" for their target - they post as an IP or throwaway sock. They don't care if it's deleted/hidden/suppressed, because the "[deleted]" comment will remain, their target will know they were "visited" and are still being targeted, and that's the effect they are after. We do have a couple of people like this. 2/ [Deleted - BEANS. Will provide on request to developers/stewards/cu/os, etc.] As said, I don't use Oversight much these days (3 times in Feb, once in April, compared with about 120 using suppression for March-April), but until RevisionDeleted has an option "Hide existance of revision from users unable to see it", I can see oversight still being needed at times, in some very serious kinds of cases. I would therefore be reluctant to see it removed without some kind of confirmation by oversighters that its absence would not reduce their ability to do the job in serious cases of this kind. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
