User:Bootmii/Conservapedia:Night editing

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When Conservapedia is in night-edit mode, only users with the 'edit' right can make edits.

Public editing in 2008 - Log excerpt[edit]

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Generally, public editing was disabled from 0:00h until 8:00h.

Public editing in 2010[edit]

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When Guard Dog went mad, it was never replaced. So, Conservapedia has no automatic way to react to orchestrated vandalism. Result: in such a case, some sysop disables public editing. This seems to be done without informing his fellow sysops, and as it has no effect on all the members with edit rights - e.g., all sysops including Andy - they aren't aware that this measure was taken. And the inconvenience for the common editors isn't seen as a big deal, so to turn public editing on again has no high priority, and is sometimes forgotten...

How to detect Night Editing Mode[edit]

Night Editing Mode isn't advertised on the main page. But of course, any ordinary user will find out easily that the Night Editing Mode is activated: when they try to edit a page. Instead of the usual edit button, they see a view source button. Clicking the button, they are informed that:

  • The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Administrators, edit.

But for a member of these two groups it is not that straightforward: they see the usual edit button and get no hint that the site is slumbering in Night Editing Mode. If they suspect that this is the case - perhaps because the Recent Changes shows no sign of activity of ordinary editors - they can use the following approach:

  • Log off

As Conservapedia allows only registered users to edit, everyone who is logged off will see the view source button instead of theedit button.

  • Click the view source button.

If the result is this message:

  • "The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Administrators, edit."

the site is indeed in Night Editing Mode. If it says:

  • "The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Users, Administrators, edit."

then the lack of activity on Recent Changes shows only that no one cares any longer.

See also[edit]

Conservapedia:Schlafly Shutdown