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👥 A website for crowd-sourcing structured election candidate data
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Flag all edits to candidate statements for review #283

Closed chris48s closed 6 years ago

chris48s commented 7 years ago

I feel like candidate statements are particularly vulnerable to defacement, etc - they're presented on WhoCIVF as being a direct message from the candidate and the barrier to entry for trolling/defacement of editing this text is much lower than would be necessary to, for example, set up a parody twitter or facebook account.

Personally I think it is probably reasonable to flag all edits which touch the statement field for review (in particular changes to a non-empty statement and especially those by a user other than the statement creator), but it would be interesting to get a feel for volume - how many such edits occurred in the last week that weren't already flagged by other rules? Do others agree?

JoeMitchell commented 6 years ago

Yep, I think this makes sense. We had about 1,000 candidate statements at the GE in six weeks.... so that's quite a few to look at ... But it's easy to spot an obviously defaced one...