[WikiEN-l] Quacks Like a Duck

[Rick]

That doesn't seem to be an option any longer.  No, instead, we're going to have a months-long runup to a mediation process, a months-long mediation process, a months-long runup to an arbitration process, a months-long arbitration process, and then maybe, just maybe, somebody will, someday when they get around to it, propose banning.
 
RickK

"Mills, Billy" <billy.mills at thomson.com> wrote:

KNOTT, T wrote: 

>What's to stop them 
>posting huge long rants where they insult a number of users at once? 

Maybe an immediate ban if they do so? 

Billy 

-----Original Message----- 
From: KNOTT, T [mailto:TKNOTT at qcl.org.uk] 
Sent: 21 January 2004 14:35 
To: English Wikipedia 
Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Quacks Like a Duck 


Wes yes I know we'll recognise them fairly quickly. But I suspect that 
most users under this sort of ban will flout it very quickly. I suspect 
that we be spending much of our time catching them out. Also 10 edits a 
day is plenty enough to be rude about people. What's to stop them 
posting huge long rants where they insult a number of users at once? 


I don't want to put too much of a downer on the idea. It might make some 
people shape up. It's certainly nice to give some sort of warning to 
give them a chance. 

Theresa 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Fred Bauder [mailto:fredbaud at ctelco.net] 
Sent: 21 January 2004 14:27 
To: English Wikipedia 
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Quacks Like a Duck 

When a quacking duck flys into view, one knows. 

Fred 

> From: "KNOTT, T" <TKNOTT at qcl.org.uk> 
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org> 
> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:12:57 -0000 
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org> 
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Warning shot - will it work ? 
> 
> How will we know when a limited edit user has gone anon ? Even if we 
> suspect that IP such and such is user so and so we couldn't prove it 
was 
> them. IPs  identify the machine not the user. 
> 
> Theresa 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Magnus Manske [mailto:magnus.manske at web.de] 
> Sent: 21 January 2004 13:50 
> To: English Wikipedia 
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] MNH, again 
> 
> I just had this idea (not necessarily related to MNH): 
> As a "warning shot" from one of out countless committees, a 
> "problematic" user could be limited to a fixed number of edits per 
day. 
> 
> That way, he can 
> * either waste these edits on stuff that gets reverted anyway, 
> * or use them more wisely, 
> * or leave if he doesn't think he can limit himself to "decent" edits 
> 
> As example, I'd say 10 edits per day, for one week. Just to have some 
> figures. 
> 
> Circumventing these measures by creating an alternate user name or 
going 
> 
> anon will result in immediate banning. 
> 
> Magnus 
> (who thinks a little discipline won't harm the project;-) 
> 
> 
> Fred Bauder wrote: 
> 
>> The members of the mediation and arbitration committees need to get 
on 
> the 
>> stick. You can keep the pressure on... 
>> 
>> Fred 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: "KNOTT, T" <TKNOTT at qcl.org.uk> 
>>> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org> 
>>> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:49:50 -0000 
>>> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org> 
>>> Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] MNH, again 
>>> 
>>> What do we need to do to get the arbitration process sorted out 
> quickly? 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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