Talk:RTUsers

Should this page exist?

With the old wiki, This page served a function as a public user list. On Wikia, there is a Special:ListUsers page that serves that function. Historically, this page was so heavily targeted by spammers that there were 450 changes in the last 2 months of its existence, when I was trying diligently to just keep the obvious new spam links out, i.e. on a typical day there would be 4 changes to add spam links and 4 removals. That has improved greatly at Wikia, but I'm pretty sure that a large fraction of the 'User' entries are really only here because some time ago a link-spammer put them on the old site and they didn't look spammy enough for anyone to remove them. I don't think it is worthwhile and maybe not even possible to sift out the legitimate personal entries from the bogus ones. even if someone adopted the task and did a reasonable job, would it be better than the Special:ListUsers page?

That just leaves the organizational user list, which may suffer from a similar problem despite at least one attempt to clean out the certain junk. If it is presumed accurate, is it worthwhile?

IMHO, the individual list should go and the org list swept for dubious cases (Vita-Mix? Really???) Anyone else have thoughts on that?

BillCole 20:20, January 26, 2011 (UTC)