https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49087
--- Comment #12 from Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #10) > (In reply to comment #8) > > (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. > > Except User A has a plausible deniability of saying I thanked for DFG and > reverted TYU. Sure, but users with a large number of edits that justify reverts are unlikely to be users with a large number of edits worth thanking. -- 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
