On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:46:50 -0500, "Michael Noda" michael.noda@gmail.com wrote:
I am, however, somewhat frustrated by the continual arrival of newcomers to old discussions, each requiring that the whole thing be gone through again.
We are growing at a rate of several hundred users, *every day*. Every one of these newcomers (well, the legit ones, not the couple dozen socks) has absolutely no idea what the history is of our long-term abusers. Each newcomer that encounters our dealings with these abusers is going to have questions about it, because that's human nature. So unless you write up documentation that can be used as a reference (not the LTA hall-of-fame that we had once, but real documentation), someone is going to have to explain things to them. If it's not you, or any of the rest of us, it's going to be WR.
And this is what I have suggested. Not LTA pages, because they have some deep structural flaws, but a page, possibly at Meta and not crawled by Google, where we can keep a history of the various debates attached to a given username. I would be much happier if we could keep Jon Awbrey's data somewhere without his name, as it's his real name and I'm rather dismayed that it's top hit for his name - as he must be.
I would like to be able to help people who can't work the Wikipedia way to leave gracefully. Sadly, a fair few of them seem to be making that rather hard by refusing to leave. This is probably not easily fixable.
Guy (JzG)