On Jun 22, 2006, at 1:32 AM, Mark Gallagher wrote:
G'day Alphax,
Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:44:48 +0200, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
It is my intention that we work to creatively soften even more restrictions.
How about semi-blocking, letting semi-blocked editors comment on Talk but not in article space?
Ideally, blocking would be even more fine-tuned:
- Block users from individual namespaces
- Block users from individual articles
- Fix Bug 550 *and implement the fix*
- Block users from uploading images
- Block users from creating articles
- Block users from moving articles
We've all seen users completely blocked because of a regrettable tendency to upload copyvios or create POV forks or move-war. Now, they could be otherwise intelligent people who think they know about copyright law but don't; or useful contributors when they're being supervised by other people on controversial articles, but who feel free to let rip on their "own" fork articles; or people who insist on treating the "move" button as a toy and causing unnecessary work for admins and unnecessary stress for non-admins. In that last case, Curps' bot caught at least one offender, but that's hardly reliable.
It would be nice to be able to prevent certain people from doing obnoxious things without blocking them completely. We shouldn't have to block otherwise sane users because of a minor foible.
The arbitration committee is constantly on the lookout for solutions which provide partial solutions such as you suggest so that there are alternatives to simply blocking someone. Mostly they depend on the using being willing to comply with partial bans on their editing. This is not done by software, but enforced by administrative blocking if they violate the partial ban, such as editing particular articles.
Fred
(I don't know Bug 550, but I assume it's the one about the autoblocker)
Cheers,
-- Mark Gallagher "What? I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse
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