Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/New page PATROLLERS/reply (4)

I think he was saying that the three of us carried out the study, not that we were the only three (although it sometimes feels like it). Perhaps unsurprisingly, I don't think a change to the interface will materially change the quality of NPP. As I have said elsewhere, nothing short of a hard restriction (this applies both to article creation and to being allowed to do NPP) will get anything done; people don't read the directions we already give them. An improved interface won't prevent someone from writing "Let's expose all burakus for what they are!!!!!!!!" with a link to a list of burakumin in Nagano Prefecture, nor will it stop a 13 year old who isn't paying attention from patrolling it; in fact, it will further enable people to mark such blatant attack pages patrolled without checking. We need ways to slow it down, and the only good way to slow NPP down is to slow down the number of pages being created. If it is slowed down, people will be able to check everything more carefully; as it is now, pages like the one described above are slipping through (the example came dangerously close, and if it had gotten through could have done horrific damage to thousands of people). A better interface would be good for patrollers like the three of us, who know what we're doing, but not for those who don't, which is around 95% of the rest of the people doing NPP now.