> On 4 January 2013 13:39, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm afraid the shooting gallery is already coded into Twinkle/Huggle.
>> It
>> is the use of that coding that is at issue. It could be used to
>> encourage, reward and advise as well as to enforce.
>
>
> This is currently implemented by templating, which is how human
> editors can fail the Turing test.
>
> Unfortunately, just banning Twinkle/Huggle/similar
> first-person-shooter games is unlikely to fly.
>
>
> - d.
>
Such applications are useful, even vital. The problem is sorting out
good-faith new users for attention. Perhaps they could flag themselves as
a "new user needing help getting started".

Fred



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