Re: Vim Weekly

On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:04:35 PM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 7:23:50 PM UTC-6, tawheed abdul-raheeem wrote:
> > On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 1:56:04 PM UTC-5, MarcWeber wrote:
> > > I haven't seen a single spam commit on my wiki yet. And if it happens
> >
> > I dont doubt that but that is probably because it has not yet gained a
> > lot of traction from the community and also web bots. I was not there
> > when vim-wikia started but I am pretty sure that they made such
> > assumptions.
> >
>
> On the contrary. vim-wikia was started specifically BECAUSE the original
> vim tips, hosted on vim.org, were seeing excessive amounts of spam, and
> it was too hard to deal with the spam. Wikia provides staff to help
> fight spam, filters, revert tools, page protection (temporary), etc.
>
> One of the biggest goals of the vim tips, is to allow ANYBODY to add or
> comment on them (or edit them, in the wiki anyway). Requiring a github
> or other account to edit will turn too many people away. Requiring all
> submissions to go through a single person will also discourage
> participation.
>
> Look, it's cool that you want to share your Vim knowledge with the
> community with a weekly tweet or something. But it's not going to
> replace the tips in the current form.

Its definitely a start, lets see how far it goes and its potential.

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