David Gerard wrote:
You realise of course all that came about for actual reason, and that's to keep [RfC] from becoming a venue for personal attack.
Then it's failed. Often, it simply becomes a pile-on to attack the filer.
(c.f. a recent deleted RFC 'certified' by five people, only the first of whom could actually show they had tried to solve the dispute before the mudslinging match. No, that's not what it's for.)
And why RfC is useless in some cases - this need for multiple people to step in isn't helpful if the person causing the problem has enough people backing them.
WP:CN recently got taken to MFD for being a second port of abuse. No, you *don't* vote on banning people.
I know, and I think it got kept, or will at least end up no consensus.
So how to not make it a troll magnet?
First, I think we need to stop worrying about possible trolls and start worrying about the well-being of the project. If we're worried about trolling to the point where good-faith editors can't air their grievences, what's the point?
-Jeff