Diamond Bus North West

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RE: Diamond Bus North West

(08/03/2021 13:47)Quackdave Wrote:  Hi everyone, I haven't been on here for a while, but have been alerted to the current issues on Quack77 by another member. Apologies, I understand how frustrating it is when valid changes are wrongly reverted. Thanks to everyone for your help and persistence in keeping the lists accurate, and sorry for being slow to implement any better system of governance.

For now, I have prevented those three Volvos from being moved back to Preston Bus by hard-coding their IDs into the page to trigger the "editing suspended" message. Clearly, that's not a manageable long term solution, but should at least stop this specific issue.

Yes, in theory I can block IP addresses, though true vandalism tends to come from a constantly changing range of addresses, so is quite hard to block effectively. In this particular instance, it does actually look like someone who normally makes good edits, including reverting quite a bit of vandalism; so I'm reluctant to just block them, even though it's annoying that they seem to have adopted a mindset that if they aren't aware of something being true, then they presume it to be false.

I realise I'm going to have to do something to stop confidence in the site being lost completely, so I will do my best to get around to building a better solution over the coming weeks and months (though with a full-time job and a family to work around, I can't promise anything). Ideally, this will include a facility similar to Wikipedia's "talk pages" - though a simpler solution, at least in the short term, might simply be to direct users to a thread set up on a forum such as this one.

Thanks for sticking with the site, and all the best,
Dave (Quack77)

Cheers Dave, and thanks for all you do on the site. Don’t envy you at all!