Originally posted by: boon23
and how exactly do you know what is spoof and what not?

It's up to the community to monitor their data. If a fan editor is given the ability to maintain their own listings, they have a vested interest in keeping an eye on them and updating them. That's the beauty of wiki-driven sites. They encourage participation, and users are much quicker to sniff out garbage than a handful of administrators who can't monitor the site 24/7.

It's also likely that we'll implement a stability rating system so that when a particular record is deemed "final" or "stable," it's locked to prevent further edits except by administrators and perhaps the original creator. On the other end of the spectrum, if a listing is rated as "questionable" because nobody can find a download anywhere, perhaps we mark the project for deletion unless the creator can prove its existence within a certain period of time. There are always checks you can put in place. We may not have thought of every single possibility up front, but there are always solutions. Building it ourselves lets us implement those solutions as we need them.

Wiki-style sites have their drawbacks, but the strengths far outweigh the weaknesses.