Talk:Random ideas for rollback to be shelved and forgotten about

Just to beat a dead horse a little more: The rate-limiting stuff is counter to the original reason for giving rollback: speed. You find a vandal, after cursory investigation all of their "plausible" edits are intentionally incorrect. You start clicking rollback on them all - RATELIMIT? Ugh.

Beating that dead horse still more: Everyone on #wm-tech that said they had hit the ratelimit, had worked around it, too. (Well, except the bots, initially.) Since the point of giving rollback is to decrease the load on the servers, nothing should be done to encourage work-arounds...as the work-arounds invariably increase the number of server hits, wasted bandwidth, etc., etc., etc.

The only sane proposal for the rate limits, is to eliminate them entirely. Someone abusing rollback will be blocked in a heartbeat, anyhow.

--Connel MacKenzie 06:15, 11 January 2008 (UTC)