On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:17 AM, eryksun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > wrote: > > > > So these edits aren't default-deny, but default-accept? Worse and worse. > > It shows who made the edit and when they edited it, which links to the > revision history. When a question is closed it shows who voted to > close it. Even retagging shows up in the revision history. Also, since > it requires a rep of 2000 to edit, generally the system isn't abused. > Lower-rep users can suggest an edit, but that goes through a review > process. > > You're notified when someone edits your answer, and you can roll it > back to a previous version. However, too many edits causes your post > to become community wiki (I think 10 edits by the owner or edits by 5 > different users). An answer marked community wiki will no longer earn > reputation from up votes, and users with a rep of only 100 have edit > privileges. >
Once again: I think that the end result (high-quality answers to relevant questions) justifies a LOT of unpleasantness along the way; probably eight times ought of ten that I Google a programming question, the best (and often the first) answer ends up being on StackOverflow. In general, the process leads to good quality. It just, unfortunately, lends itself to reputation-gaming, and to useless users appearing far more prominent than they should. The actual damage that those parasites are able to do to the ecosystem is limited, however... except that otherwise-motivated users sometimes get irritated and drop out.
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