>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