Re^4: Sorry I wanted to delete it (illusion of control)

It looks like ...

janitors decide, I get it :)

But if you don't want users blanking the titles and node contents, or title going from many words to less words (or no words) ...

... remove the illusion of control over own nodes, esp for the noobs

If you don't allow nodes to be blanked, node wouldn't be considered for restore :)

Should be very easy to implement, compare size before/after, .... maybe Text::Diff to quantify drastic change

Hey, you tried to delete the node title and node contents, that form of vandalism isn't allowed, update rejected, you can't unmail a letter

Hey, you changed your node drastically, that form of vandalism isn't allowed, update rejected, you can't unmail a letter

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Re^5: Sorry I wanted to delete it (illusion of control) by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 29, 2014 at 02:39 UTC
Not so easy to detect actually. Sure, in the simplest case of delete everything, but otherwise there are legitimate changes that would look like vandalism. People are still generally better at this sort of pattern recognition than computers and given the small number of cases we get it's just not worth the effort to try and automate in some fashion. Perl is the programming world's equivalent of English	[reply]
Re^5: Sorry I wanted to delete it (control of illusion) by Anonymous Monk on Jul 29, 2014 at 04:06 UTC
At the simplest, the initiate (noob) filter could disallow all edits except prepend/append. Just an index test. Additionally, the edit page might feature a self-reap `[HIDE MY FOO]` button that wraps the text as spoiler, appends "Mea Culpa" for good effect.	[reply] [d/l]