Peter Stephenson wrote:
Hi Jason, I am surprised that you allow just anyone to edit your pages. I
would have expected a log in of some sort so that you can keep track of who
is saying what and being able to stop nuisance/malicious edits.
<shrug> In practice, in a system where anyone can register for a
username and password that buys very little benefit.
If you ban someone they just register a new user-id and continue doing
whatever it was that you banned them for.
You can stop them from doing that by blocking their IP address(es), but
you can do that even if you don't have a username/password.
Graffiti on wikis is a problem; they usually need some kind of editorial
staff to clean up. But it isn't as big a problem as it's made out to be.
Meanwhile, a lot of the benefit of Wikis comes from the fact that they
can be updated by anyone with minimal fuss. There are more people out
there who want to add valuable info than there are who want to wreck it.
Observant readers may have noticed the way that the Joeyglide comments
occasionally filled up with links to porn sites during the junior worlds.
Not really much you can do about that, other than be diligent about
deleting it when it happens.
- mark
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