https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29165

--- Comment #6 from Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> 2011-06-03 08:07:19 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Well... People could "rate a user" massively ([[Cyber-bullying]]?) as not 
> being
> "Trustworthy" so that its name is displayed in (automatically generated)
> special pages such as
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Special:ArticleFeedback
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/pt/w/index.php?title=Especial%3ARatedPages&ratingtier=1&namespace=0&ratingtag=reliability&uselang=en
> and others which could be created in the future...
> 
> I think such pages could make these unwanted ratings to become visible, and
> considering that the ratings in the userpage are not visible to "normal" 
> users,
> after a large amount of bad ratings is achieved, it would be difficult to
> revert.


That's correct, afaik rating in any namespace (including but not limited to the
User namespace) is currently possible when manually loading the module.

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