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| ``rollbacks and deletions''
by akrowne on 2004-02-25 09:54:39 |
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| > How is it different from what I proposed? You cannot have
Oops, I guess I misunderstood you.
> Now there are two venues open for malicious changes:
> rollbacks and deletes. The potential problem is not limited
> to orphans because there are some entries that allow anyone
> to change access permissions (do not remember titles off top
> of my head, but I have seen such entries).
Kind of... rollbacks are only allowed by owners. Everyone else who can edit has to manually undo changes. And this implies only owners can cause information about revisions to disappear with the current system. When I designed all of this, I was only worried about malicious behavior from non-owners, perhaps wrongly.
I am more worried about people adopting objects then deleting them. In this case the owner has a rather low barrier to being malicious. There are a few things that could be done here. One would be to never really remove all traces of an object... say by putting deleted objects in an object "graveyard" which can still be accessed. Another approach would be to forbid scores < 0. Deletion of an object should leave an object adopter with a deficit of 50 points, so they'd have to have some positive standing score-wise to delete objects.
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