Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment--20150814190019/@comment-11842624-20150815173722

Dragonfree97 wrote:

I think there's a bit of a difference between (a) your average person competent enough with JavaScript to deserve these additional rights (b) a ten-year-old kid vandalizing a wiki because lulz (c) the police force.

How does Wikia know its VSTFs aren't going to go rogue and delete everything? Do all their contributions and help need to be patrolled and watched by some review squad? Surely they could do more damage since they have powers across the whole of Wikia? A local code-editor group would be a group only for users who, like VSTFs, are trusted by Wikia not to do anything wrong. Such police must be like FBI?: total preventing JS changes, control over the members in order to discourage collusion with criminals. "No one trust" still real, remember?


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state

BethanyM wrote: Code should always be reviewed before it is implemented. The best coders make mistakes, without going rogue or wishing to cause havoc, which can cause major problems. Truly competent, well trained software coders/ programmers know this. Reviews may take a little time but knowing the final product functions properly is worth it. Global-used code yes (http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:7172). Custom unique js, which cannot steal personal information due to improvement of security ─ no.