in reply to Moderation voting

A small, but growing number of votes are being cast for keep instead of edit, which effectively blocks an edit.

Actually, what "effecitvely blocks" janitors honoring most of those consideration requests is that most janitors just won't do many of those types of edits. The only reason nodes to consider isn't full of hundreds of those ignored considerations is because somebody was nice enough to implement a patch that purges old, ignored considerations after one month automatically.

I've certainly written several nodes about this so you might want to go look for previous discussions since you seem to be unaware of this long-standing trend.

- tye        

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Re^2: Moderation voting (abstain)
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Sep 07, 2008 at 12:38 UTC

    While I understand that the Janitors decide if the node should be modified based on a consideration, the documentation at How do I use the power of consideration responsibly? states under Good reasons to consider a node include:

    To fix formatting, e.g. adding <code> tags around code, adding <readmore> tags.

    The long standing trend is not as documented, so which is policy? The documentation linked from the top of the Nodes to Consider page, or many conversation nodes that may or may not have been read, or perhaps, remembered. Would it make sense to update the documentation for consideration to reflect current site policy and remove that conflict? Even a small change to the document, such as "s/tags\./tags for the Anonymous Monk./" or some such limitation would make it clear that this is not the SOP for moderation. As it stands, the documentation is contrary your stated site policy.

    --MidLifeXis

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Re^2: Moderation voting (abstain)
by Arunbear (Prior) on Sep 06, 2008 at 12:40 UTC
    That auto expiry patch has not been applied yet. If you go to Nodes Requiring Editing, you'll see that there are some considerations more than a month old in there.
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      Thanks for the notice and the link to it. I made a minor style update, applied it, and then considered your node to test it. Seems to work great. Thanks!

      - tye        

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