[Tutor] keyboard interrupt

[Marc Tompkins]

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:17 AM, eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
> wrote:
> >
> > So these edits aren't default-deny, but default-accept? Worse and worse.
>
> It shows who made the edit and when they edited it, which links to the
> revision history. When a question is closed it shows who voted to
> close it. Even retagging shows up in the revision history. Also, since
> it requires a rep of 2000 to edit, generally the system isn't abused.
> Lower-rep users can suggest an edit, but that goes through a review
> process.
>
> You're notified when someone edits your answer, and you can roll it
> back to a previous version. However, too many edits causes your post
> to become community wiki (I think 10 edits by the owner or edits by 5
> different users). An answer marked community wiki will no longer earn
> reputation from up votes, and users with a rep of only 100 have edit
> privileges.
>

Once again: I think that the end result (high-quality answers to relevant
questions) justifies a LOT of unpleasantness along the way; probably eight
times ought of ten that I Google a programming question, the best (and
often the first) answer ends up being on StackOverflow.  In general, the
process leads to good quality.  It just, unfortunately, lends itself to
reputation-gaming, and to useless users appearing far more prominent than
they should.  The actual damage that those parasites are able to do to the
ecosystem is limited, however... except that otherwise-motivated users
sometimes get irritated and drop out.
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