[HCoop-Discuss] Proposal to make Wiki frontpage read-only

[Michael Olson]

rob at hcoop.net writes:

> So, nothing is stopping them from signing up to commit changes to
> our wiki.  I'm of the opinion that if someone can't be bothered to
> go through the step of creating an account prior to editing a page
> they don't have anything meaningful to contribute.

Signing up is an extra, and unnecessary, step for making changes like
the ones I mentioned.  It will definitely turn away people who would
be likely to make the kind of edits that I described.

So why make things unnecessarily harder?  Write-protect just the one
darn FrontPage to prevent egg-on-face kind of spam, and be done with
it!

-- 
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