Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140410195636/@comment-1207741-20140411180801

Speysider wrote: They can restore them, but that requires knowing the thread's ID and unless someone knows that, it won't be possible to find the thread again, without randomly guessing. If they know it's missing, they can conceivably find it again. Locate the closure in RecentChanges, track down somebody's comment to the topic, etc.

Speysider wrote: I guess, but I don't think we should be waiting for a problem to happen and then discussing how to solve it: we should be trying to ensure that there's no possibility for abuse at all. So we should limit most editing privileges to only rollbackers so that there's no chance of new users doing something undesirable. Although, actually, some rollbackers haven't edited in a while so they could come back just to cause chaos, so we should limit most editing privileges to only sysops. Although, actually, sysops may do something they shouldn't, so we should limit most editing privileges to only Dantman. Although, actually, he doesn't visit the wiki very often so he can hardly be counted on to know what's up. We should just not let anyone do anything and then there's no possibility of abuse.

We cannot anticipate every problem, nor should we.

Plus, comment rights are limited to a very small corner of the wiki. The amount of possible abuse is negligible.