Cees de Groot <cg at cdegroot.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, in my idea Apprentice would be good enough as a level, 
> but yes -  
> it's an issue. I think it'd be nice to randomly pick opinions 
> when they're  
> a year old or so, and ask the holder of the opinion to update 
> it through  
> an email or something.

That's actually a really nice idea. Per individual, the traffic's minimal (a mail every year or so), so it shouldn't annoy people too much. Just a small prod, you know?

> > Hm, wouldn't it be nice to have some serious log 
> introspection for a  
> > wiki? Then you could check usage patterns for particular 
> IPs and know  
> > that attacks usually occur at time N from block B, you know? (This  
> > violates privacy of users on a grand scale, so you really 
> want this  
> > admin-only or something.)
> >
> Hmm... I could easily get the same information now by harvesting the  
> changes list, so not a lot of privacy hurt here...

Agreed. I was thinking that with a nice interface, all the traffic analysis work's already done for the attacker.

frank


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