[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[Keitei]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 9:42, geni wrote:

> Editors are people. Being blocked hurts. Haveing your work deleted  
> hurts.

Why does being blocked hurt? If a block is just what happens when you  
do such and such (like revert three times), why would that be a blow  
to the ego? You wait it out, you can edit again, no big deal.  
Ideally, you don't do anything which would lead to a block and  
nothing happens.

I think that probably punitive blocks would have less drama and be  
better received overall. Currently blocks mean "this person is a  
danger to the community." A punitive block would just mean "this  
person did such and such" and would both prevent further unwanted  
actions and not stigmatize it more than needed. But I will not be  
pushing for a rewrite of the blocking policy. I just think it really  
ought to be no big deal.

--keitei