Exponential Backoff Editing

This is my means to avoid EditWars and saving my energy when cleaning up vandal attacks.

I will edit/correct/fix/undelete some attack on a page immediately. If it is repeated, I will wait a short time and clean up again, and so on, delaying by the next higher unit (second, minute, day, week) each time (roughly).

This has quite some advantages:

• It saves my energy (O(1) cost per attack, 1+1/2+1/4+...=2).
• It allows other WikiGnomes to fix it without getting in the way of each other too often.
• Assuming that the vandal is less dedicated to this wiki than I, I will undo his changes when he has left.
• If the vandal is dedicated, he has to look continuously for changes, whereas I have to do so seldom (O(n) cost for the vandal).
• I have time to reconsider my fix, whether it was warranted, what other WikiZens do about it.

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Has anyone implemented ExponentialBackoffEditing in code for their wiki? This has the advantage of inhibiting EditWars and uncontrolled ThreadMode back-and-forths, but might also inhibit contributions from people who tend to immediately follow their posts with several MinorEdit corrections.

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