[WikiEN-l] Why not selective blocks?

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 8/22/07, Adrian <aldebaer at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure this idea has already been kicked around, but why aren't there
> selective blocks, i.e. blocks restricted to one or more certain pages? I

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-July/078354.html

[snip]
> If it later turned out that the user in question is
> generally intolerable, s/he could accordingly be fully blocked (as
> usual) to give them a stronger warning.

'Soft security' is a core idea behind a lot of our decisions.

If someone can't restrain themselves when we tell them they must
behave or leave entirely then they are failing the most fundamental
requirement for an acceptable participating member in a healthy free
society, self-control.