[Developers] Spam and accountability, was Re: Blog properties and ping idea

[Christopher R. Maden]

Kirrily Robert <skud at infotrope.net> wrote:
> So, to broaden this question in general... how is Freebase going to
> deal with spam in general?

[and on history]
> I presume this data is stored in the backend, but are there any plans
> to expose this information via the Freebase UI?

You may have missed the “Page History” link in the top right of every topic display page.

This is something where I think Freebase is superior to Wikipedia; in Wikipedia, the article is a monolithic text, and tweezing out the specific changes made by different contributors is difficult.  (Sure, there are diffs, but it really requires a human to discern what *information* was changed.)  With Freebase, the data is much more quantized, and therefore more easily undoable.

And so this goes to help answer the spam question as well.  Since we don’t (and won’t) allow anonymous edits, abusive users can be locked out and all their changes undone, without having to go through the kind of reconciliations that make undoing an old Wikipedia edit difficult.

~Chris
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Christopher R. Maden
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Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
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