Marc Riddell wrote:
on 4/1/07 10:09 AM, Andrew Gray at shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Do you feel we should - a) ban or restrict that user and let people get on with their work; or b) some other remedy which essentially maintains the status quo?
Thanks for this very clear explanation. As for me, I would go with solution a) for a period of time, while - and this is the important part - working with and trying to help this contributor understand the problems they are causing. That, to me, would be a solution fair to both the contributor and the project.
Nice idea, doesn't work in practice. Way back when, I tried to help problematic editors a number of times, and there were exactly two outcomes; the person understood what they were doing wrong after getting the one hint, or never understood, no matter how many times it was explained. We get a *lot* of borderlines, and one always hopes that just one more rephrasing will cause the light bulb to come on - but these folks have more serious problems than can be solved with talk page notes.
You should try your hand at it, will be valuable for insight - pick a problem editor, such as one who's come up in an RfC, Arbcom case, etc, and assign yourself to help them.
Stan