Brian McKee wrote:
Proof is in the pudding - wikipedia and wikibooks seem to prove it _does_ work.
I imagine these sites work from the frantic effort of very large numbers of contributors (much larger than we should expect). Twenty-four hours per day, there is someone monitoring edits to their favourite wikipedia page. From complaints I've seen from burnt-out contributors, the spam and junk is removed by shear physical effort (with clever tools). Also, we should expect spam to get much worse. Note that spam doesn't have to actually work. Someone just has to HOPE that it might work. Scammers will sell programs to automatically break any simple and not-so-simple anti-spam technique. Search-engine optimisers will sell hope that they can promote web sites, etc. So, I think that requiring vimtip admins to suffer a bit of pain in managing the entry of tips and changes would probably be less effort than what would be required to clean up vandalism. How often are tips added or changed? Look at the effort that people put into this mailing list ... I would have thought that manually tweaking tips would be manageable. Would someone please check how the Google wiki would work if a malicious admin were accidentally added. Is there a super-admin? John
