I am working on setting up a community portal. Your thoughts on wiki are very encouraging and wise. thank you for sharing.
Selva. On Apr 1, 2004, at 6:58 PM, Evan Prodromou wrote:
"EP" == Evan Prodromou evan@wikitravel.org writes:
EP> But also: what's to stop your disruptive visitor from creating EP> a user account? Or another user account, when you block that EP> one? And another? How much time has been saved, over simply EP> rolling back edits? And now there's just one, or a few, EP> people who are able to take active measures... meaning things EP> get out of hand faster.I forgot to mention one more thing: once you start taking these technological steps, you change the focus of the problem from the unwanted _edits_, to the unwanted _editor_.
Someone who's been told they're not wanted will either a) walk away dejectedly, b) learn an important lesson about themselves, or c) do everything in their power to prove that YOU are wrong for rejecting them.
If you concentrate on the problem edits, there's a chance that a compromise can still be reached. If you concentrate on the problem editor, those chances go down precipitously.
~ESP
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