The following discussion has been shamelessly lifted from the editors wiki, at tye's sensible suggestion.

castaway, 2004-11-23
Folks, Any objections to raising the number of keep/edit votes needed to prevent a reap? (We can raise the number of reap votes needed too if need be) - reason, there are many more >lvl5 than there used to be, so more likelyhood of bungled votes, IMO. In fact, having these as some (small) precentage of the number of users >lvl5 would fix it for good..

ysth, 2004-11-23
The larger number of senior monks means more lemming-votes too. I'd rather keep it at 2 even at the cost of more trouble for janitors/gods.

davido, 2004-11/23
I could see raising the number of keep/edit votes necessary to block reaping to three, or at the very most, four. I believe also that there should be a minimum consideration time, so that if enough 'delete' people jump onto a node quickly to get it reaped, the system still gives a few minutes for voices of reason to weigh in. Maybe it could be something like this: If there are zero keep votes, the consideration lasts ten minutes. If there are one, two, or three keep votes, consideration lasts an hour. And if a fourth keep vote comes, reaping is effectively blocked.

Editor deletes wouldn't be subject to the wait period. This will allow a few Janitors to jump on something truly offensive if necessary.

Let the discussion begin...

Wiki discussion was edited prior to posting in Inner Scriptorium, to put the wiki comments in forward chronoligical order (as opposed to wiki-standard reverse-chronological order).


Dave

In reply to RFD: Raising the number of keep/edit votes needed to prevent a reaping. by davido

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