On 6/6/05, Rebecca misfitgirl@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/6/05, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
... As a result, I think that for us mediation is more likely to be useful much earlier in the process, as disputes are only beginning and before they have really had a chance to heat up. This would require watching more closely for situations where mediation can help, and a more interventionist approach from the mediators, rather than waiting for cases to come to them.
Once again, I think that's very true - but how can we get a system where these conflicts are actually attended to that quickly?
-- ambi
We have RC patrol. Would a Mediation patrol be useful? It would be fairly simple to set up a page to allow people to post disputes they happen to come across. You can find many of them just by looking at talk pages on Special:Recentchanges.