On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Jack Lynch wrote:
I personally would like to see more attention to rewarding good behaviour and less to punishing bad. I think that would help alot. Maybe if adminship was determined my a long and complementary process, rather than an open vote (where you get to see the names of those who oppose you), some of the bad blood would reduce. I can say from my studies in behavioural psychology and job coaching that the wikipedia has '''far''' too much emphasis on scolding and potential punishment processes, and not nearly enough on compliments. The ratio of compliment to criticism which has been shown most effective in modifying the bahaviour of others is 5 to one. Thats five compliments for every critisism, something rather far off from where the wiki is now.
I'd be very surprised if I'm the only one here who has noticed JCarriker's proposal, [[User:JCarriker/Esperanza]] -- although he doubtlessly intends to apply his idea to more than only "brittle" contributors.
Geoff