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Minor edits
Mav wrote (on the other list):

> BTW, why do anonymous IPs have the ability to mark edits as minor?
> That wasn't the case for Phase II. The way it is now "hide minor edits"
> is useless because most vandals are anonymous and oftentimes mark
> their vandalisms as "minor".

I propose that we restrict the "mark edit as minor" option to signed-in contributors, on the grounds that it will help protect against vandalism.

Ed Poor
Re: Minor edits [ In reply to ]
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:58, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
> I propose that we restrict the "mark edit as minor" option to signed-in
> contributors, on the grounds that it will help protect against
> vandalism.

We used to do exactly this. When and why did it change?

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)