https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49087
--- Comment #25 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #24) > I don't think it'll be an issue because the information is not currently > logged, as I understand it, but if the behavior is changed here, we have to > ensure that past thanks are not retroactively linked to specific edits. Users > currently thank with the expectation that their thanks are unattributed to > any > specific edit and we can't violate that. My comment was not about retroactive compatibility. It was reiterating why this was WONTFIXed. We don't add logging "just because" or on principle. We do it for a reason. In this case, the potential drawbacks outweigh the benefits. Consider the factors at play here, when considering what kind logging is needed: * There is little opportunity for abuse, beyond sheer volume, which is also rate limited. * There has been almost no over-use or other abuse to date. No one has presented any evidence this occurs regularly. The example brought up in Comment 20 is as far as I can tell not a remotely common problem. * The English Wikipedia community, as a big example and the community with the most experience with the feature, finds even the current logs to be not useful. They specifically requested we not show them by default, because there is no reason to monitor them. * No one wants Thanks to become a popularity contest, where diffs can be ranked or assessed by whether they receive thank yous. Making "thanks" a public +1 for an edit would poison the well. This is not a Like button for edits, and let's keep it that way. If people really think it's an all-or-nothing issue, where the logs should be turned off entirely unless the diff is also logged, that should be a separate bug. -- 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
