https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49087
--- Comment #8 from Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > (In reply to comment #5) > > > The contents of an on-wiki communication should never be kept > > > confidential. > > > Keeping "the substance of the thanks private" is inappropriate. > > > > So we should also remove the 'email' feature? > > email would not be an on-wiki communication, therefor it is allowed to be > private and you know that wasn't what kww said. > > > Here's my thinking here; what we're trying to avoid is a situation where the > > thanks button can in some way undermine consensus, or be used as a vector > > for > > it - we don't need (as you've pointed out, Kww) a situation where an editor > > justifies themselves based on thirty people hitting 'thank' on their edit. > > > > Keeping the subject of the 'thank' unlogged is a way of ensuring that this > > won't happen; it makes it utterly impossible for anyone to actually justify > > a > > statement of "well, lotsa people thought it was a good edit, check out my > > log". > > Adding the edits as an element makes this risk more likely, not less. > > It also increase the likelihood of people abusing the feature to harass > people > by intentionally thanking and reverting multiple edits and offering the > harassed no way of substantiating the claim and defending themselves. > Except there's a rate limit, and if someone was to repeatedly thank a user that they were reverting the edits of I think /someone/ would twig. UserA thanks UserB many times. We can see this. UserA reverts UserB's edits many times. We can see this. It doesn't take linking the two together to notice that UserA is probably being a complete arse. -- 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
