Dan Grey (dangrey@gmail.com) [050712 23:22]:
On 12/07/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
I'm not sure how to get it to scale. I can only see the workload going up as the editor population goes up, and hence the problem children in proportion.l.
You could increase the deterrent factor. Longer, more frequent bans etc.
Long bans basically don't work. Sockpuppetry seems to be the rule rather than the exception. And that seems only to provide incentive to *bring* querulous cases, in the hope of punishing one's opponent more.
BTW wasn't Raul suggesting a month or two ago that the workload was actually going _down_?
Serious problem users tend to get shown the door (then the alley outside, then the garbage bins opposite) in reasonably short order. It's the knottier conflicts that are the lengthy and painful ones.
- d.