It's noteworthy that they are not non-appealable blocks. I honestly don't
think this is beyond the scope of the list, although it's certainly a
depressing topic. Allowing severe gendered slurs to be bandied about with
essentially no penalty is likely something that is going to decrease the
participation of women on ENWP - which is not a good thing. I know there's
been some debate in the past about whether or not ENWP specific issues are
appropriate for this list, but I believe this is a large enough one to be.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case <
dancase(a)frontiernet.net> wrote:
Eric Corbett is going to be under a new regimen of
non-appealable
civility blocks under the aegis of Arbitration Enforcement.
One wonders if it’s really time for someone to just initiate a discussion
on AN as to whether the community’s patience with him is exhausted enough
to community-ban him indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of any ArbCom
case. We have done things like this before—after one such editor prompted
multiple suggestions that he be banned among the many opposes he received
when he ran for ArbCom with the premise of effectively abolishing it by
voting against hearing any new cases, I initiated that discussion, which
led to the editor in question pretty much jumping before he was pushed.
And I say this as someone who has never interacted with him in any
meaningful way, at least not for years, but sees and hears him increasingly
discussed as the *one* user who represents all the shortcomings of our
disciplinary processes. Whether he is a genuinely toxic person or not seems
to be a matter of some debate, but I think there is no doubt that the
perception that he is has increasingly mooted that question.
Of course we could also consider the suggestion Jimmy had in his closing
speech at Wikimania this year that we deal with toxic people on the site
who also happen to be good content creators by giving them their own wikis
where they, and anyone who wanted to work with them, could develop and
improve whatever content they wanted to.for reimportation. Maybe part of
the problem is that we offer too limited a choice of
(And per other emails, this is really beyond the scope of this list, so
any followups should probably directed to me personally or taken on-wiki.
Besides I don’t want to ruin anyone’s Thanksgiving, regardless of whether
you celebrate it or not—we all deserve a break).
Daniel Case
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